{"id":5117,"date":"2003-12-21T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-21T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2021-06-13T22:06:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T22:06:32","slug":"thurmond-family-struggles-with-difficult-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/21\/thurmond-family-struggles-with-difficult-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Thurmond Family Struggles With Difficult Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/12\/20\/national\/20STRO.html\">Thurmond Family Struggles With Difficult Truth<\/a><br \/>\nThe New York Times<br \/>\nDecember 20, 2003<br \/>\nBy JEFFREY GETTLEMAN <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After Essie Mae Washington-Williams told the world this week that she was Strom Thurmond&#8217;s mixed-race daughter, she walked away &#8220;completely free&#8221; of a burden she had borne privately for decades. <\/p>\n<p>Now members of Mr. Thurmond&#8217;s sprawling family, a well-connected dynasty in South Carolina, say they are the ones struggling. <\/p>\n<p>The sudden, very public arrival of Ms. Washington-Williams to the family has stirred a mix of frustration, curiosity, discomfort and shame, several relatives of the late Mr. Thurmond said today, speaking about the news for the first time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thurmond Family Struggles With Difficult Truth The New York Times December 20, 2003 By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN After Essie Mae Washington-Williams told the world this week that she was Strom Thurmond&#8217;s mixed-race daughter, she walked&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"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":[63,141],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-5117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-biracial-and-multiracial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1kx","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7333,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions\/7333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}