{"id":3,"date":"2009-01-22T11:01:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2009-01-22T11:33:39","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T16:33:39","slug":"finally-after-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/finally-after-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally after 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"answer\" style=\"margin: auto 0in auto 0.5in; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Well, it has been 30 years, and now the date is\u00a0here. I\u2019m very excited. I can\u2019t wait to go to the bookstore and see\u00a0my book\u00a0on the shelf. Why did it take me 30 years? In addition to tracing my own ancestry, I have traced the history of each family associated with Wessyngton Plantation, including the owners of the plantation. This involved examining tens of thousands of documents, census records, wills, bible records, reading hundreds of letters, and interviewing descendants of the slaves and the plantation owners.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Well, it has been 30 years, and now the date is\u00a0here. I\u2019m very excited. I can\u2019t wait to go to the bookstore and see\u00a0my book\u00a0on the shelf. Why did it take me 30 years? In addition to tracing my own ancestry, I have traced the history of each family associated with Wessyngton Plantation, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[14,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}