{"id":5025,"date":"2016-07-01T12:59:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T17:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2016-07-01T16:02:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T21:02:50","slug":"holidays-were-not-always-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/01\/holidays-were-not-always-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays Were Not Always Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do not be surprised if you see an official document or court record dated\u00a0New Year&#8217;s Day, July Fourth, or Christmas. Those days were not always holidays in the United States. A court record dated \u00a04 July 1842 may have the correct date after all&#8211;don&#8217;t assume the clerk made an error.<\/p>\n<p>And always transcribe a document the way it is written, even if you think something on the original document is incorrect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/4july.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5026\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5026\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/4july.jpg\" alt=\"4july\" width=\"584\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/4july.jpg 584w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/4july-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not be surprised if you see an official document or court record dated\u00a0New Year&#8217;s Day, July Fourth, or Christmas. Those days were not always holidays in the United States. A court record dated \u00a04 July 1842 may have the correct date after all&#8211;don&#8217;t assume the clerk made an error. And always transcribe a document [&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-5025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025","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=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}