{"id":424,"date":"2019-05-02T12:48:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T10:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/newsletter-library\/?p=424"},"modified":"2019-05-02T12:43:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T10:43:43","slug":"79-just-for-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/newsletter-library\/79-just-for-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindred Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/prdt.iese.edu\/library\/library-newsletter-79\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #999999\">&gt;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><span style=\"color: #999999\">Return to the\u00a0#79 Newsletter<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kindred.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Kindred Britain<\/span><\/strong><\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>offers a fascinating glimpse into the connections of social networks of historic Great Britain. Is Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill a direct descendent of King Henry VIII? Are Charles Darwin and Jane Austen connected by blood? These are just a few of the thousands of surprising family links that users can see for themselves on Kindred Britain, a remarkable site from Stanford University.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Kindred Britain site presents a network of nearly 30,000 individuals connected through family relationships of blood, marriage, or affiliation over 15 centuries of historical data. Records in the database include the noteworthy and the notorious \u2013 from prime ministers, bankers, novelists and scientists to lunatics, misfits and criminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&gt;\u00a0Return to the\u00a0#79 Newsletter Kindred Britain\u00a0offers a fascinating glimpse into the connections of social networks of historic Great Britain. Is Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill a direct descendent of King Henry VIII? Are Charles Darwin and Jane Austen connected by blood? These are just a few of the thousands of surprising family links that users can see for themselves on Kindred Britain, a remarkable site from Stanford University. The&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-container\"><a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/newsletter-library\/79-just-for-fun\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94984,94966],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-79-april-2019","category-just-for-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/newsletter-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/newsletter-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/newsletter-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/newsletter-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/newsletter-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/newsletter-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/newsletter-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/newsletter-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/newsletter-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/newsletter-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}