{"id":267,"date":"2013-02-05T13:24:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T19:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=267"},"modified":"2013-02-05T13:27:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T19:27:03","slug":"strom-thurmonds-mixed-race-daughter-dies-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"WaPo:  Strom Thurmond\u2019s mixed-race daughter dies at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/strom-thurmonds-mixed-race-daughter-dies-at-87\/2013\/02\/04\/660e074e-6f3d-11e2-8b8d-e0b59a1b8e2a_story.html\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/strom-thurmonds-mixed-race-daughter-dies-at-87\/2013\/02\/04\/660e074e-6f3d-11e2-8b8d-e0b59a1b8e2a_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am Essie Mae Washington-Williams, and at last I am completely free,\u201d Washington-<br \/>\nWilliams said at a news conference in 2003, after revealing her secret in an interview with The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p><strong>She was born in 1925 after Thurmond, then 22, had an affair with a 16-year-old black maid who worked in his family\u2019s Edgefield, S.C., home.<\/strong> She spent years as a schoolteacher in Los Angeles, keeping in touch with her famous father.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>interesting the way that&#8217;s phrased . . in my book, when a 22 year old man has sex with a 16 year old girl who works for his family . .\u00a0 . at the very <em>least<\/em> it&#8217;s statutory rape !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/strom-thurmonds-mixed-race-daughter-dies-at-87\/2013\/02\/04\/660e074e-6f3d-11e2-8b8d-e0b59a1b8e2a_story.html \u201cI am Essie Mae Washington-Williams, and at last I am completely free,\u201d Washington- Williams said at a news conference in 2003, after revealing her secret in an interview with The Washington Post. She was born in 1925 after Thurmond, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=267\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}