{"id":19083,"date":"2017-12-27T07:22:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T13:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=19083"},"modified":"2017-12-27T07:22:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T13:22:03","slug":"christmas-gifts-2017-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/27\/christmas-gifts-2017-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Gifts 2017 (I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mother-in-law is a bit of a genealogist.  So this year, she spent seven months of hobby time working on the Noggle half of my family tree, and she created a four-volume compendium of her findings, culminating in a tenuous link to the English throne.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/nogglefamilyhistory.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Behind the scenes, she informs me, she has been eliminating families and entire erroneous lines as she found them.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads me, someone untrained in such matters, that she hopes to present me with the English throne in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait!<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>UPDATE:<\/b><\/font>It suddenly occurs to me that she might not be doing this for me, but for her oldest grandson.  Once the other claimants, <em>including me<\/em>, are out of the way, someone in <em>her<\/em> line will become King, and her daughter will rule during the regency. <\/p>\n<p>If anyone needs me, I&#8217;m going to binge-watch <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> for a primer on how to handle royal intrigue.  <em>Before it&#8217;s too late.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother-in-law is a bit of a genealogist. So this year, she spent seven months of hobby time working on the Noggle half of my family tree, and she created a four-volume compendium of her findings, culminating in a tenuous link to the English throne. Behind the scenes, she informs me, she has been eliminating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19084,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19083\/revisions\/19084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}