{"id":4669,"date":"2016-04-15T14:17:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T19:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4669"},"modified":"2016-04-15T14:25:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T19:25:39","slug":"whats-the-point-of-that-middle-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/15\/whats-the-point-of-that-middle-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the Point of that Middle Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your ancestor&#8217;s middle name could be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a maiden name of a mother or grandmother<\/li>\n<li>a first name of another relative<\/li>\n<li>a first name of a neighbor or family friend<\/li>\n<li>a name from a contemporary famous figure<\/li>\n<li>totally arbitrary and random<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The fifth situation does not happen often, but it does happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em> is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1604GT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> proudly sponsored by\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1604GT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">GenealogyBank<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your ancestor&#8217;s middle name could be: a maiden name of a mother or grandmother a first name of another relative a first name of a neighbor or family friend a name from a contemporary famous figure totally arbitrary and random The fifth situation does not happen often, but it does happen. \u2014\u2014\u2013 Genealogy Tip of [&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-4669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669","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=4669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}