{"id":8403,"date":"2018-05-22T08:10:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T13:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8403"},"modified":"2019-04-30T08:31:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T13:31:05","slug":"my-parents-are-dead-but-i-write-my-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/22\/my-parents-are-dead-but-i-write-my-folks\/","title":{"rendered":"My Parents are Dead But I Write my Folks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today many of us use the word &#8220;folks&#8221; to refer our parents. The term was not always that specific and often in earlier times meant family in a broader sense. When Emmar Osenbaugh mentions writing &#8220;my folks&#8221; in March of 1918, she&#8217;s talking about her family in general&#8211;not her parents. They were long dead by 1918.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8404\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/my-folks-emmar-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"868\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/my-folks-emmar-.jpg 868w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/my-folks-emmar--300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/my-folks-emmar--768x334.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/my-folks-emmar--624x271.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today many of us use the word &#8220;folks&#8221; to refer our parents. The term was not always that specific and often in earlier times meant family in a broader sense. When Emmar Osenbaugh mentions writing &#8220;my folks&#8221; in March of 1918, she&#8217;s talking about her family in general&#8211;not her parents. They were long dead by [&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-8403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403","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=8403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}