{"id":317,"date":"2003-12-13T21:39:37","date_gmt":"2003-12-14T02:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/ironical_if_true\/"},"modified":"2003-12-13T21:39:37","modified_gmt":"2003-12-14T02:39:37","slug":"ironical_if_true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/ironical_if_true\/","title":{"rendered":"Ironical If True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Strom may not have been <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/ap\/20031214\/ap_on_re_us\/thurmond_paternity_3\">as committed a segregationist as one might assume<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A 78-year-old retired schoolteacher is coming forward after years of silence to claim she is the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, her attorney said Saturday.<br \/>\nEssie Mae Washington-Williams, who lives in Los Angeles, had long been rumored to be the daughter of the one-time segregationist, who died June 26 at the age of 100. She is coming forward now at the urging and encouragement of her children, attorney Frank K. Wheaton said.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nWilliams claims Thurmond fathered her long before his political career started, when he was a 22-year-old living in his parents&#8217; home in Edgefield, S.C. Her mother, then 16, had been working as a maid in the Thurmonds&#8217; home.<br \/>\nIf challenged by the Thurmond family, Williams is ready to submit to DNA tests, Wheaton said.<br \/>\nWilliams said she has documents to validate her claim, including cashier&#8217;s check stubs, mementos from Thurmond and a letter from an intermediary who delivered money from the senator. She provided the Post with a copy of a 1998 Thurmond letter thanking her &#8220;for the nice Father&#8217;s Day note you sent me.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/ironical_if_true\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Ironical If True\"><p>Apparently Strom may not have been as committed a segregationist as one might assume: A 78-year-old retired schoolteacher is coming forward after years of silence to claim she is the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, her attorney said Saturday. Essie Mae Washington-Williams, who lives in Los Angeles, had long been rumored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}