{"id":1494,"date":"2007-02-21T17:43:38","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T22:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2007-02-21T17:43:38","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T22:43:38","slug":"soundex-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1494","title":{"rendered":"Soundex Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shawn Day on his <a href=\"http:\/\/shawnday.com\/randomosity\/2007\/02\/20\/links-for-2007-02-21\/\">Randomosity blog<\/a> has links to some good explanations of the Soundex algorithm for finding names that sound the same, but are spelled differently as in &#8220;Smith&#8221; and &#8220;Smythe&#8221;. For example, Eastman&#8217;s Online Geneaology Newsletter has a post on <a href=\"http:\/\/eogn.typepad.com\/eastmans_online_genealogy\/2005\/04\/soundex_explain.html\">Soundex Explained<\/a> that walks you through the algorithm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shawn Day on his Randomosity blog has links to some good explanations of the Soundex algorithm for finding names that sound the same, but are spelled differently as in &#8220;Smith&#8221; and &#8220;Smythe&#8221;. For example, Eastman&#8217;s Online Geneaology Newsletter has a post on Soundex Explained that walks you through the algorithm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-text-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}