{"id":274,"date":"2009-11-14T03:55:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T07:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=274"},"modified":"2009-11-14T03:55:15","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T07:55:15","slug":"the-power-of-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight before a friend and I headed to dinner, an email popped in my inbox saying someone commented on a post on SteveRogers.info.\u00a0 Few people comment directly on my blog, and the person who did tonight happened to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kchblog.com\/\">relative<\/a> I have never met.<\/p>\n<p>They were Googling my uncle David and found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=80\">this post<\/a> from over two years ago, and I then received the following comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u2019re related. David is my mother\u2019s (Geraldine\u2019s) cousin. Her mother (Josephine) was your grandfather\u2019s sister. I saw another Rogers in the news today, and decided to Google David, and found your blog. I guess we\u2019re something like second cousins twice removed, or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>My only David story is that your grandmother gave my sister and I some Steiff puppets that belonged to David and his brothers (including your father, presumably) when we were little. One was a monkey, the other a rabbit. I still have mine. We grew up in NJ, partly in Fair Haven and Rumson, so we\u2019d visit the cool old house in Middletown occasionally. I remember they had a huge bulldog. I also remember that your grandmother warned me that Yale was very dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Hope all is well!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211; Kathy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My mother was not a fan of my grandparents&#8217;\u00a0 dogs.\u00a0 My dad loved &#8217;em.\u00a0 Yale is probably still dangerous though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight before a friend and I headed to dinner, an email popped in my inbox saying someone commented on a post on SteveRogers.info.\u00a0 Few people comment directly on my blog, and the person who did tonight happened to be a relative I have never met. They were Googling my uncle David and found this post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}