{"id":4338,"date":"2016-02-08T16:50:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T22:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4338"},"modified":"2016-02-08T16:50:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T22:50:37","slug":"he-is-a-grass-widower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/08\/he-is-a-grass-widower\/","title":{"rendered":"He Is a Grass Widower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While reading\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1POfnbx\">Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Marcia Meredith Hensley, I came across a reference to a woman referring to a single neighbor man as a &#8220;grass widow&#8221; in a letter written by Julia Erickson in Winnett,\u00a0Montana, in 1911 (page 111).<\/p>\n<p>Doing a little research, I discovered that men could be referred to as &#8220;grass widowers&#8221; just in the same way as women could be referred to as &#8220;grass widows.&#8221; The reason was the same: the spouse was &#8220;gone.&#8221; Of course, gone can mean quite a few things from temporarily away, to separated, to divorced.<\/p>\n<p>But use of the adjective &#8220;grass&#8221; was not limited to women. It could apply to men as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reading\u00a0Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West,\u00a0by\u00a0Marcia Meredith Hensley, I came across a reference to a woman referring to a single neighbor man as a &#8220;grass widow&#8221; in a letter written by Julia Erickson in Winnett,\u00a0Montana, in 1911 (page 111). Doing a little research, I discovered that men could be referred to 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-4338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338","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=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}