{"id":246,"date":"2022-10-20T12:17:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/?p=246"},"modified":"2022-10-20T12:18:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:18:41","slug":"mark-twain-2nd-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/2022\/10\/20\/mark-twain-2nd-cousin\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Twain &#8211; 2nd Cousin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-247\" src=\"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Mark-Twain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Mark-Twain.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Mark-Twain-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> Samuel Clemens had a g-grandfather from Kentucky named William Montgomery (1727-1780), who is my 6th great-grandfather. This makes me a 2nd cousin (5x removed) of Mark Twain, which &#8211; with a dollar &#8211; might buy me a little gas for my car. Twain&#8217;s writings are enjoyed by many, and his humurous quips are some of the best in the world. I quote him in the first chapter of my book &#8220;Heaven is Like Eternal Sex.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(TO BE CONT&#8217;D)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Clemens had a g-grandfather from Kentucky named William Montgomery (1727-1780), who is my 6th great-grandfather. This makes me a 2nd cousin (5x removed) of Mark Twain, which &#8211; with a dollar &#8211; might buy me a little gas for my car. Twain&#8217;s writings are enjoyed by many, and his humurous quips are some of&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/2022\/10\/20\/mark-twain-2nd-cousin\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jim-sandman-articles-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}