{"id":17461,"date":"2023-12-30T22:12:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T04:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17461"},"modified":"2023-12-30T22:12:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T04:12:53","slug":"plowing-corn-in-1936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/30\/plowing-corn-in-1936\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Plowing Corn&#8221; in 1936"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Quick Google searches do not answer every question. Artificial Intelligence does not answer every question either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June of 1936 my grandmother&#8217;s sister-in-law wrote her a letter and mentioned that grandma&#8217;s brother was &#8220;plowing corn.&#8221; I had a pretty good idea what it meant. Google searches and Artificial Intelligence prompts did not provide answers that came close. Grandma&#8217;s sister-in-law likely meant that her husband was tilling in between the recently sprouted rows of corn to turn up and kill weeds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my memory of growing up on a grain farm, this process was referred to as cultivating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this post isn&#8217;t about farm practices in the 1930s or the 1980s. It&#8217;s about realizing that Google searches and Artificial Intelligence prompts won&#8217;t answer every question. Reaching out to actual living humans who have knowledge of the time period, the location, and the specific occupation or cultural practices involved is necessary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick Google searches do not answer every question. Artificial Intelligence does not answer every question either. In June of 1936 my grandmother&#8217;s sister-in-law wrote her a letter and mentioned that grandma&#8217;s brother was &#8220;plowing corn.&#8221; I had a pretty good idea what it meant. Google searches and Artificial Intelligence prompts did not provide answers that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}