{"id":3422,"date":"2006-09-12T09:57:31","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T13:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=3422"},"modified":"2006-09-12T09:57:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T13:57:50","slug":"holy-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2006\/09\/holy-cow\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Cow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine is a dedicated genealogist.<!--more--> At one point she was using a will to reconstruct a family tree and came across this sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I bequeath unto my daughter Daisy the cow.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She sealed Daisy to her parents.  Further research revealed several references to this family, none of which included a daughter named Daisy.  Perplexed, she returned to her original source of information . . . and realized that the sentence would read rather differently if it had included a comma.  Additional research showed that she had, in fact, sealed a cow to this family.<\/p>\n<p>Let this be a lesson to you all:  sloppy writing can have eternal consequences.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine is a dedicated genealogist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}