{"id":27,"date":"2026-03-05T15:10:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stickonthekettle.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:23:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:23:26","slug":"the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stickonthekettle.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/the-children\/","title":{"rendered":"The Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Michael and Catherine\u2019s children were born into this atmosphere of mobility, professionalism, and cultural confidence. Their eldest son, <strong>Francis<\/strong>, was named <strong>Francis David O\u2019Brien Newman<\/strong> in honour of his grandmother Kate O\u2019Brien. Their youngest son, <strong>Gerald<\/strong>, carried the name <strong>Cornelius<\/strong> after Kate\u2019s brother, <strong>Cornelius O\u2019Brien<\/strong>. These names were not accidental\u2014they reflected a family proud of its heritage and determined to preserve it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <strong>1914<\/strong>, during Michael\u2019s work in Coleraine, the couple welcomed their daughter, <strong>Edith Margaret Newman<\/strong>, who would go on to become the most publicly influential of the three siblings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael and Catherine\u2019s children were born into this atmosphere of mobility, professionalism, and cultural confidence. Their eldest son, Francis, was named Francis David O\u2019Brien Newman in honour of his grandmother Kate O\u2019Brien. Their youngest son, Gerald, carried the name Cornelius after Kate\u2019s brother, Cornelius O\u2019Brien. These names were not accidental\u2014they reflected a family proud of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickonthekettle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickonthekettle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickonthekettle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickonthekettle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickonthekettle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stickonthekettle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/stickonthekettle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickonthekettle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickonthekettle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickonthekettle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}