{"id":277,"date":"2002-05-15T13:19:53","date_gmt":"2002-05-15T21:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=277"},"modified":"2004-10-20T12:32:46","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T20:32:46","slug":"what-family-doesnt-have-its-ups-and-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"what family doesn&#8217;t have its ups and downs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we persons of pallor <a href=http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/issues\/2002\/05\/olson.htm>are all descended from Charlemagne<\/a>, we could still one-up each other on what fraction of our ancestry is royal, or how few of the links in the chain are female.<\/p>\n<p>If a genie offered me three wishes, my third (after a godlike physique and knowledge of all human languages) might be for a genealogical database covering the last million years.  It would be fun to find out, for example, who are my most distant living kin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we persons of pallor are all descended from Charlemagne, we could still one-up each other on what fraction of our ancestry is royal, or how few of the links in the chain are female. If a genie offered me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=277\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}