{"id":215,"date":"2002-02-12T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-12T06:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2010-09-06T22:24:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T03:24:10","slug":"215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/215\/","title":{"rendered":"Helmcken House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbc.gov.bc.ca\/culture\/schoolnet\/helmcken\/people\/sociall.html\">Helmcken House Historic Site,<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<br \/>On his voyage to York factory, Dr. Helmcken learned the card game Whist, to later become a much enjoyed pass time: &#8220;Chief Factor Hargrave and Mrs. Hargrave and nurse were passengers also &#8211; so the Captain and the above and I had a rubber of whist every night, when possible. I knew nothing about whist, but they broke me in and account was kept of the games with the debt and so forth! At the end of the journey, I had only four shillings to pay!&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John Helmcken (BCARS: ADD.MSS.505, V.12)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helmcken House Historic Site, On his voyage to York factory, Dr. Helmcken learned the card game Whist, to later become a much enjoyed pass time: &#8220;Chief Factor Hargrave and Mrs. Hargrave and nurse were passengers also &#8211; so the Captain and the above and I had a rubber of whist every night, when possible. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/215\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Helmcken House&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}