{"id":982,"date":"2002-04-03T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-03T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=982"},"modified":"2002-04-03T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-03T23:11:00","slug":"cousin-marriage-genetically-sound-entire-population-of-kentucky-and-kansas-relieved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/04\/03\/19\/11\/cousin-marriage-genetically-sound-entire-population-of-kentucky-and-kansas-relieved\/","title":{"rendered":"Cousin Marriage Genetically Sound: Entire Population Of Kentucky and Kansas Relieved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/04\/03\/health\/03CND-COUS.html\">Contrary to widely held beliefs and longstanding taboos in America, first cousins can safely have children together, without a great risk of birth defects or genetic disease, scientists are reporting today. They say there <\/a><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Marriage\/No%20Genetic%20Reason%20to%20Discourage%20Cousin%20Marriage,%20Study%20Finds.html\">is no biological reason to discourage cousins from marrying &#8230; a survey in 1942 found 18.7 percent in a small town in Kentucky, and a 1980 study found 33 percent in a Mennonite community in Kansas.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to widely held beliefs and longstanding taboos in America, first cousins can safely have children together, without a great risk of birth defects or genetic disease, scientists are reporting today. They say there&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}