{"id":4970,"date":"2016-06-18T09:42:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T14:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4970"},"modified":"2016-06-18T14:16:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T19:16:32","slug":"giving-me-a-bit-of-my-vegemite-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/18\/giving-me-a-bit-of-my-vegemite-sandwich\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Me A Bit of My Vegemite Sandwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 1980s song from the group &#8220;Men at Work&#8221; mentions a Vegemite sandwich. Having no personal connections to Australia, from which the band hailed, I concluded the words were &#8220;bit of my&#8221; sandwich. It sounded correct to me and was the most logical interpretation I could come up with at the time.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s several quick reminders or lessons here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>don&#8217;t assume<\/li>\n<li>our initial conclusions may be incorrect<\/li>\n<li>our ancestors might not have heard a clerk&#8217;s questions correctly<\/li>\n<li>the clerk may not have heard our ancestor&#8217;s answers correctly<\/li>\n<li>being unfamiliar with a culture or dialect may be what is causing our &#8220;problem&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 1980s song from the group &#8220;Men at Work&#8221; mentions a Vegemite sandwich. Having no personal connections to Australia, from which the band hailed, I concluded the words were &#8220;bit of my&#8221; sandwich. It sounded correct to me and was the most logical interpretation I could come up with at the time. There&#8217;s several quick [&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-4970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970","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=4970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}