{"id":4038,"date":"2011-09-19T08:42:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T13:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4038"},"modified":"2020-01-31T14:44:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T19:44:40","slug":"my-great-grandfather-was-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4038","title":{"rendered":"My Great Grandfather was legal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dailydish.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451c45669e2014e8b909937970d-250wi\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But he wasn&#8217;t a very good farmer.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been doing a little digging into family history on the eve of a family reunion. Here&#8217;s my Great-Grandfather Thomas Robb&#8217;s second home.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-gXoVU2OwYaA\/TndlLJhrkcI\/AAAAAAAAAIA\/rLBVm_CZEOU\/RobbFarm1925.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>His first home was a &#8220;bank house&#8221; dug into a Kansas hillside.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/timothylee\/2011\/09\/13\/americas-illegal-pioneers\/\"> Forbes&#8217; story<\/a> on all the illegals America (and native America) dealt with before Abe Lincoln got things sorted out with the Homestead Act of 1962. It  was OK though. These illegals were all white people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But he wasn&#8217;t a very good farmer. I&#8217;ve been doing a little digging into family history on the eve of a family reunion. Here&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29515,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions\/29515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}