{"id":9568,"date":"2019-01-31T08:51:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T14:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9568"},"modified":"2019-01-31T08:51:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T14:51:19","slug":"the-easiest-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/31\/the-easiest-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Easiest Explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generally speaking, the easiest explanation is usually correct. The more logical hoops one has to jump through, the more times one has to &#8220;put away common sense,&#8221; and the like, the more likely the explanation isn&#8217;t correct. Unusual things do happen, but there is a reason that they are unusual. That &#8220;oops&#8221; baby great-grandma had at the age of 55, twelve years after her last child was born, most likely is a child of one of her daughters in their late teens. The more creative you have to get to explain something, the more likely something simply is not correct.<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8230;if you find first hand evidence of those unusual events, that is a different story. Just make certain the informants are reliable.<\/p>\n<p>And sober&#8230;it helps if they were sober when they told their story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally speaking, the easiest explanation is usually correct. The more logical hoops one has to jump through, the more times one has to &#8220;put away common sense,&#8221; and the like, the more likely the explanation isn&#8217;t correct. Unusual things do happen, but there is a reason that they are unusual. That &#8220;oops&#8221; baby great-grandma had [&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-9568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9568","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=9568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}