{"id":53234,"date":"2014-03-30T13:28:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T21:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=53234"},"modified":"2014-03-30T13:28:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T21:28:54","slug":"my-famous-irish-australian-rebel-ancestor-michael-dwyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=53234","title":{"rendered":"My Famous Irish-Australian Rebel Ancestor &#8211; Michael Dwyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My famous Irish-Australian rebel <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Dwyer\">ancestor<\/a> was on my mum&#8217;s side. The Ford side comes from a bloke who stole a coat in 18th Century England and his Royal Majesty was so concerned about this guy&#8217;s health that the thief was sent to the temperate climes of Australia for his crime. I understand that Protestants spell it &#8220;Ford&#8221; and Catholics spell it &#8220;Forde&#8221; so my ancestors are Protestant Australians for at least six generations (not sure about the religious leanings of my great-grandfather on my dad&#8217;s side who was Chinese, he got buried with the Jews and other unbelievers in Townsville).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My famous Irish-Australian rebel ancestor was on my mum&#8217;s side. The Ford side comes from a bloke who stole a coat in 18th Century England and his Royal Majesty was so concerned about this guy&#8217;s health that the thief was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=53234\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53235,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53234\/revisions\/53235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}