{"id":7891,"date":"2018-01-27T10:08:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T16:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7891"},"modified":"2018-01-27T10:08:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T16:08:19","slug":"hell-fenced-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/27\/hell-fenced-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Hell Fenced In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not certain if it was a play on words, an attempt at humor, or exactly what, but one of my great-grandfathers referred to the town of Elvaston, Illinois, as &#8220;hell fenced in.&#8221; It&#8217;s not a very big place, and I doubt if it was ever a really wild place, but I&#8217;ve made a note of it in my files. It&#8217;s never a bad thing to record things you know about your relative&#8217;s sense of humor&#8211;even if you don&#8217;t get the joke.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230;the phrase may have simply resulted from the way &#8220;Elvaston&#8221; could have been pronounced by some people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not certain if it was a play on words, an attempt at humor, or exactly what, but one of my great-grandfathers referred to the town of Elvaston, Illinois, as &#8220;hell fenced in.&#8221; It&#8217;s not a very big place, and I doubt if it was ever a really wild place, but I&#8217;ve made a note [&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-7891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891","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=7891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}