{"id":247,"date":"2008-12-28T12:58:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T19:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/martin\/?p=247"},"modified":"2008-12-28T12:58:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T19:58:40","slug":"the-largest-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/the-largest-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuben Bland: The Largest Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From the December 22, 1926 issue of the Gastonia Daily Gazette, paper of Gastonia, NC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reuben Bland<\/strong> Martin county, is figuring on going to the national capital to keep his story straight.\u00a0 Bland is the father of 34 children.\u00a0 He expressed resentment that representative Upshaw and the United States house of representatives made such an ado last week over a Georgia farmer with only 28.\u00a0 Bland claimes he is the father of the largest family in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the December 22, 1926 issue of the Gastonia Daily Gazette, paper of Gastonia, NC Reuben Bland Martin county, is figuring on going to the national capital to keep his story straight.\u00a0 Bland is the father of 34 children.\u00a0 He expressed resentment that representative Upshaw and the United States house of representatives made such an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/the-largest-family\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reuben Bland: The Largest Family&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4835,22493],"tags":[12172],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families","category-newspaper-extract","tag-bland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}