{"id":111,"date":"2008-04-25T11:19:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T16:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=111"},"modified":"2008-04-25T11:19:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T16:19:09","slug":"old-jokes-when-genealogists-go-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2008\/04\/25\/old-jokes-when-genealogists-go-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Jokes:  When Genealogists Go Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Quizzer\u2014<\/em> What\u2019s the matter, old man? You look worried.<br \/>\n<em>Sizzer\u2014<\/em> I have cause to. I hired a man to trace my pedigree.<br \/>\n<em>Quizzer\u2014<\/em> Well, what\u2019s the trouble? Hasn\u2019t he been successful?<br \/>\n<em>Sizzer\u2014<\/em> Successful? I should say he has! I\u2019m paying him hush money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Davenport Democrat<\/em>,\u00a0December 31, 1918,\u00a0p.14<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Genealogy jokes are rare in our newspaper archives&#8211;especially ones that provide\u00a0ideas for future fundraising opportunities.*\u00a0 So when we find &#8217;em, we just have to share.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/laughing.JPG?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Laughing\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>*This is also a joke and in no way is meant to imply an individual determination or a\u00a0conspiracy\u00a0to commit any illegal deeds whatsoever.\u00a0 Our staff would never dream of blackmailing anyone with the deeds of their ancestors, whether famous, infamous, or just plain uninteresting.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quizzer\u2014 What\u2019s the matter, old man? You look worried. Sizzer\u2014 I have cause to. I hired a man to trace my pedigree. Quizzer\u2014 Well, what\u2019s the trouble? Hasn\u2019t he been successful? Sizzer\u2014 Successful? I should say he has! I\u2019m paying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2008\/04\/25\/old-jokes-when-genealogists-go-bad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","category-local-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXc-1N","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}