{"id":4154,"date":"2016-01-08T20:30:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T02:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2016-01-08T20:36:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T02:36:47","slug":"obituaries-may-not-be-fact-checked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/08\/obituaries-may-not-be-fact-checked\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituaries May Not Be Fact Checked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obituaries in modern United States newspapers are rarely fact-checked. Typically they are used by the newspaper as submitted, with the exception of formatting and other minor editing concerns. Biographical facts, dates, survivors are not usually fact-checked by the newspaper at all. The only ones that are are death notices for local notables or individuals who are known nationally.<\/p>\n<p>Chances are that Grandma&#8217;s obituary from 1980 was pretty much printed as submitted to the newspaper. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obituaries in modern United States newspapers are rarely fact-checked. Typically they are used by the newspaper as submitted, with the exception of formatting and other minor editing concerns. Biographical facts, dates, survivors are not usually fact-checked by the newspaper at all. The only ones that are are death notices for local notables or individuals who [&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-4154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154","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=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}