{"id":34818,"date":"2015-04-14T19:12:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T02:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=34818"},"modified":"2015-04-14T19:12:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T02:12:10","slug":"who-do-you-think-you-are-to-feature-bill-paxton-sunday-april-19-on-tlc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=34818","title":{"rendered":"Who Do You Think You Are? to Feature Bill Paxton Sunday, April 19 on TLC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tlc.com\/tv-shows\/who-do-you-think-you-are\/\">Who Do You Think You Are?<\/a> features Bill Paxton &#8211; maybe best known for his lead role in the movie &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twister_(1996_film)\">Twister<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tlc.com\/tv-shows\/who-do-you-think-you-are\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bill-Paxton-250pw.jpg\" alt=\"Bill-Paxton-250pw\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34820\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bill always wondered if he was related to Texan hero, Sam Houston (who he just happens to be playing in a movie out next year). After Bill sees that indeed he and Sam are distant cousins,  he sets off on a journey back to his third great grandfather and finds out that after spending years fighting in the Revolutionary War for the Patriot cause, he drops his arms and takes up a cutting edge new religion called, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_New_Church\">Swedenborgianism<\/a>. Bill&#8217;s ancestor was caught between the worlds of being a slave-owning land owner and a God-fearing man who believed that human kindness would lead him to heaven.<\/p>\n<p>This episode airs Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 10\/9c on TLC. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tlc.com\/tv-shows\/who-do-you-think-you-are\/\">Don&#8217;t miss it!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Who Do You Think You Are? features Bill Paxton &#8211; maybe best known for his lead role in the movie &#8220;Twister.&#8221; Bill always wondered if he was related to Texan hero, Sam Houston (who he just happens to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=34818\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Who Do You Think You Are? to Feature Bill Paxton Sunday, April 19 on TLC<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity-genealogy","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34818"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34823,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34818\/revisions\/34823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}