{"id":9266,"date":"2018-12-01T09:13:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T15:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9266"},"modified":"2018-11-29T16:15:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T22:15:22","slug":"is-your-question-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/01\/is-your-question-clear\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Question Clear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether a question is sent in an email, posted on a message board, submitted as a comment to a blog post, fired off to a Facebook post, or spoken out loud, try and be as clear as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Avoid:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>pronouns (he, she, they, etc.) if the reference is not clear;<\/li>\n<li>nameless titles or relationships (doctor, Grandma, Uncle, etc.);<\/li>\n<li>abbreviations and other shorthand that someone else may not know;<\/li>\n<li>do not self-create abbreviations;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your goal of asking a question is to get an answer. If someone cannot understand your question, they may choose to ask for clarification.<\/p>\n<p>Or they may simply bypass your question entirely. Remember that it is the internet and people often move onto the next shiny thing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether a question is sent in an email, posted on a message board, submitted as a comment to a blog post, fired off to a Facebook post, or spoken out loud, try and be as clear as possible. Avoid: pronouns (he, she, they, etc.) if the reference is not clear; nameless titles or relationships (doctor, [&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-9266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266","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=9266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}