{"id":24435,"date":"2025-02-28T11:15:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T17:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=24435"},"modified":"2025-02-28T11:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T17:15:08","slug":"popepion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/popepion\/","title":{"rendered":"Popepion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/possession.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"823\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/possession.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/possession.jpg 823w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/possession-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/possession-768x429.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 823px) 100vw, 823px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The word looks like &#8220;popepion,&#8221; but it is not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s &#8220;possession.&#8221; There was a time when a double &#8220;s&#8221; was not written like one &#8220;s&#8221; after the other. Sometimes the script looks like a fancy lower-case &#8220;f&#8221; and other times it looks like a &#8220;p&#8221; in this illustration from an 1820s era court case in Harford County, Maryland. My transcription of the word is &#8220;possession&#8221;  and not &#8220;popepion&#8221; because the practice was common. This is not a misspelled word. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word looks like &#8220;popepion,&#8221; but it is not. It&#8217;s &#8220;possession.&#8221; There was a time when a double &#8220;s&#8221; was not written like one &#8220;s&#8221; after the other. Sometimes the script looks like a fancy lower-case &#8220;f&#8221; and other times it looks like a &#8220;p&#8221; in this illustration from an 1820s era court case in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24435","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\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}