{"id":4240,"date":"2016-01-23T19:14:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2016-01-23T19:14:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:14:09","slug":"not-really-widowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/23\/not-really-widowed\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Really Widowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many divorced women in the 19th and early 20th century found it easier to say they were widowed instead of saying they were divorced. This individual&#8217;s 1900 census enumeration indicated she was a widow when in fact she was divorced and her ex-husband was very much alive. Sometimes divorcees would refer to themselves as &#8220;grass widows,&#8221; but that term was not approved by the census department. <a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wisad.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4242 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wisad.jpg\" alt=\"wisad\" width=\"533\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wisad.jpg 533w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/wisad-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many divorced women in the 19th and early 20th century found it easier to say they were widowed instead of saying they were divorced. This individual&#8217;s 1900 census enumeration indicated she was a widow when in fact she was divorced and her ex-husband was very much alive. Sometimes divorcees would refer to themselves as &#8220;grass [&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-4240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240","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=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}