{"id":3072,"date":"2015-06-29T16:47:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T21:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3072"},"modified":"2015-06-29T16:47:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T21:47:17","slug":"bracket-those-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/29\/bracket-those-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Bracket Those Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When transcribing a document or an item from a document, use brackets to indicate when you are &#8220;guessing&#8221; at a word or phrase or adding a word or phrase of your own. Personally I add words or phrases rarely, preferring to comment later if something warrants it. The word\u00a0<em>sic<\/em> (Latin for &#8220;as is&#8221;) should be bracketed as well when it is used to indicate that you copied something exactly as it was in the document&#8211;even though it looked wrong.<\/p>\n<p>For example, &#8220;&#8230;to my son[<em>sic]\u00a0<\/em>Elizabeth I leave my farm&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When transcribing a document or an item from a document, use brackets to indicate when you are &#8220;guessing&#8221; at a word or phrase or adding a word or phrase of your own. Personally I add words or phrases rarely, preferring to comment later if something warrants it. The word\u00a0sic (Latin for &#8220;as is&#8221;) should be [&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-3072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072","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=3072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}