{"id":1084,"date":"2018-05-06T17:16:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T17:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2018-05-06T17:16:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T17:16:37","slug":"food-for-thought-a-good-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"Food for Thought &#8211; A Good Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/History.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1085\" \/><br \/>\nI wanted to share a recent article in the New York Times, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/12\/opinion\/sunday\/historians-versus-genealogists.html\">The Historians vs The Genealogists<\/a>&#8221; by John Sedgwick, who is a historian.  I was trained in the social sciences so I know that my genealogy work is influenced by my background, particularly in psychology, sociology and education.  I think that&#8217;s one of the greatest benefits of genealogy as a second career; your past influences your analysis of your present research.  Collaborating with others makes the analysis even more powerful, especially if the background of the collaborators is diverse.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to share a recent article in the New York Times, &#8220;The Historians vs The Genealogists&#8221; by John Sedgwick, who is a historian. I was trained in the social sciences so I know that my genealogy work is influenced by my background, particularly in psychology, sociology and education. I think that&#8217;s one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=1084\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Food for Thought &#8211; A Good Read&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[287,583,584],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-genealogist","tag-historian","tag-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}