{"id":1167,"date":"2026-10-27T19:33:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usaviralfeed.com\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2026-10-27T19:33:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:33:25","slug":"did-you-know-musk-had-a-grandfather-born-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usaviralfeed.com\/?p=1167","title":{"rendered":"Did you know Musk had a grandfather born in Minnesota?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk was born in South Africa, but his family roots run through the American Midwest.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1168\" src=\"https:\/\/usaviralfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/images-9-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usaviralfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/images-9-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/usaviralfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/images-9.jpg 727w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>His maternal grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, the father of Maye Musk, was born in a log cabin in Pequot, Minnesota, in 1902. His family moved to Saskatchewan, Canada, when he was a young boy.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>After losing his farm during the Great Depression, Haldeman worked as a cowboy and rodeo performer, and he became known for bronco riding and rope tricks. He later became a chiropractor, a pilot and a politician, and in 1950 he moved his family to South Africa, where Maye raised Elon.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>Musk has said his grandfather&#8217;s love of adventure and risk had a big influence on him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk was born in South Africa, but his family roots run through the American Midwest.His maternal grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, the father of Maye Musk, was born in a log cabin in Pequot, Minnesota, in 1902. His family moved to Saskatchewan, Canada, when he was a young boy.After losing his farm during the Great Depression,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usaviralfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usaviralfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usaviralfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usaviralfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usaviralfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usaviralfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"https:\/\/usaviralfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/1169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usaviralfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usaviralfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usaviralfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usaviralfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}