{"id":13831,"date":"2024-03-05T02:07:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T02:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/?p=13831"},"modified":"2024-03-05T02:07:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T02:07:13","slug":"taylor-swift-and-emily-dickinson-arent-just-acclaimed-writers-theyre-distant-relatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/taylor-swift-and-emily-dickinson-arent-just-acclaimed-writers-theyre-distant-relatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson aren\u2019t just acclaimed writers. They\u2019re distant relatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It seems Taylor Swift\u2019s knack for writing runs blood deep \u2014 all the way back to poet Emily Dickinson.The \u201cKarma\u201d singer and the \u201c\u2018Hope\u2019 is the thing with feathers\u201d author are distant relatives, specifically \u201c6th cousins, three times removed.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Genealogical site\u00a0Ancestry.com\u00a0revealed on Monday that the two writers descend from \u201ca 17th century English immigrant\u201d who settled in Windsor, Conn.That distant ancestor was Dickinson\u2019s sixth great-grandfather and Swift\u2019s ninth, Ancestry.com added. Swift\u2019s side of the family stayed in Connecticut for \u201csix generations until her part of the family settled in northwestern Pennsylvania,\u201d the site told today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems Taylor Swift\u2019s knack for writing runs blood deep \u2014 all the way back to poet Emily Dickinson.The \u201cKarma\u201d singer and the \u201c\u2018Hope\u2019 is the thing with feathers\u201d author are distant relatives, specifically \u201c6th cousins, three times removed.\u201d Genealogical site\u00a0Ancestry.com\u00a0revealed on Monday that the two writers descend from \u201ca 17th century English immigrant\u201d who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13833,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13831\/revisions\/13833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendpop.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}