{"id":4812,"date":"2003-05-05T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-05T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4812"},"modified":"2021-06-14T20:38:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T20:38:35","slug":"is-paulie-abeles-the-next-mary-rosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/05\/05\/is-paulie-abeles-the-next-mary-rosh\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Paulie Abeles the next Mary Rosh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Kahn of the Associated Press on <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=528&#038;ncid=528&#038;e=11&#038;u=\/ap\/20030502\/ap_on_re_us\/jefferson_hemings\">Web Spying Puts Twist on Jefferson Saga<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The wife of a Thomas Jefferson family association official said Friday that she masqueraded as a 67-year-old black woman on an Internet chat room in a bid to keep descendants of a reputed Jefferson mistress out of this weekend&#8217;s family reunion.   <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It might have been somewhat unethical,&#8221; said Paulie Abeles of Washington, D.C., who participated for eight months in the Yahoo! message board created for relatives of Jefferson slave Sally Hemings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Might<\/i> have been unethical? Oh please.  It <b>WAS<\/b> unethical.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It might have been childish, but I really think I was working in the best interest of the majority of the family members to make the reunion a calm and civilized gathering,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me settle this one for you Ms. Abeles, it <b>WAS<\/b> childish.  You didn&#8217;t do your family any favors by causing such a scandal and you&#8217;ve only managed to keep the Hemings-Jefferson story in the news for another few weeks.  Good job!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Kahn of the Associated Press on Web Spying Puts Twist on Jefferson Saga: The wife of a Thomas Jefferson family association official said Friday that she masqueraded as a 67-year-old black woman on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[133],"class_list":["post-4812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","tag-miscegenation-and-the-founding-fathers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1fC","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Editors-Corner.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7554,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions\/7554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}