{"id":11329,"date":"2016-04-10T14:09:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T13:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11329"},"modified":"2016-04-09T14:16:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T13:16:09","slug":"census-of-sense-of-humour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11329","title":{"rendered":"Census, or sense of humour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0United Kingdom Census of 1881 recorded significant information about the people residing in every UK household on the night of 3 April 1881.<\/p>\n<p>It was just the fifth of the UK censuses to include details of household members (previously censuses recorded the head of the household and property details).<\/p>\n<p>Details collected include: address, name, relationship to the head of the family, marital status, age at last birthday, gender, occupation, and place of birth.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s really interesting is that at that time, we either had a much looser understanding of &#8216;occupation&#8217;, or perhaps people were less afraid of showing they had a sense of humour.<\/p>\n<p>You decide.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11330\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11330\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11330\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1881Census.jpg\" alt=\"1881 census occupations\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1881Census.jpg 600w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1881Census-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1881Census-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1881Census-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1881 census occupations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0United Kingdom Census of 1881 recorded significant information about the people residing in every UK household on the night of 3 April 1881. It was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}