{"id":6410,"date":"2017-04-04T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6410"},"modified":"2017-04-04T15:00:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T20:00:41","slug":"getting-an-opinion-and-getting-past-the-initial-assumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/04\/getting-an-opinion-and-getting-past-the-initial-assumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting an Opinion and Getting Past the Initial Assumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was convinced that I could see my mother in a recently discovered picture of her great-great-grandmother. I was certain there was no other opinion. Without telling her what I thought, asked my daughter who she thought the woman in the picture resembled.<\/p>\n<p>I was certain she would say &#8220;Grandma.&#8221; I was positive.<\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>And she rattled off the name of another family member. After thinking for a minute, I could see it. I was so set in my initial view that I was unable to see anything else.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you need to hear a different perspective, listen to it, and contemplate it. In the end you may not agree with the alternate interpretation, but being challenged and thoughtfully considering the possibility there&#8217;s another interpretation besides yours is not harmful.<\/p>\n<p>It is one of the best ways to avoid making incorrect interpretations or conclusions.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6411\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/antje-jaspers-tip-of-day.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/antje-jaspers-tip-of-day.jpg 700w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/antje-jaspers-tip-of-day-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/antje-jaspers-tip-of-day-624x401.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was convinced that I could see my mother in a recently discovered picture of her great-great-grandmother. I was certain there was no other opinion. Without telling her what I thought, asked my daughter who she thought the woman in the picture resembled. I was certain she would say &#8220;Grandma.&#8221; I was positive. She didn&#8217;t. [&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-6410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410","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=6410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}