{"id":2372,"date":"2026-04-14T09:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:42:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:42:36","slug":"my-paternal-grandfather-was-called-bunco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2026\/04\/14\/my-paternal-grandfather-was-called-bunco\/","title":{"rendered":"We called my paternal grandfather\u00a0Bunco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We called my paternal grandfather Bunco, as in full of bunk. \u00a0He was Po-Po<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> for the <\/span>other paternal cousins.<\/p>\n<p>Bunco was from Oklahoma. The whole batch of them, the Lang&#8217;s, were deemed hayseed unsophisticates by Granny, my mother&#8217;s mother, who never let us forget that our, that is <i>her<\/i>, family went back to Davy Crockett and Tennessee, which she thought conferred some sort of nobility. Though an impoverished widow who worked as a single mom on refinery row, Granny thought of herself as a fallen noble. She was a proud Episcopalian. My father converted in a vain attempt to win her over. He died an Episcopalian lay pastor in Livingston, a podunk East Texas town on the edge of the Piney Woods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We called my paternal grandfather Bunco, as in full of bunk. \u00a0He was Po-Po for the other paternal cousins. Bunco was from Oklahoma. The whole batch of them, the Lang&#8217;s, were deemed hayseed unsophisticates by Granny, my mother&#8217;s mother, who never let us forget that our, that is her, family went back to Davy Crockett &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2026\/04\/14\/my-paternal-grandfather-was-called-bunco\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We called my paternal grandfather\u00a0Bunco&#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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions\/2455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}