{"id":5127,"date":"2003-12-22T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-22T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5127"},"modified":"2021-06-13T22:10:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T22:10:17","slug":"critics-of-thurmonds-daughter-change-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/22\/critics-of-thurmonds-daughter-change-tune\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics of Thurmond&#8217;s daughter change tune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/mld\/thestate\/news\/7527402.htm\">Critics of Thurmond&#8217;s daughter change tune<\/a><br \/>\nThe State<br \/>\nby JENNIFER TALHELM and AARON GOULD SHEININ<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Essie Mae Washington-Williams apparently has won over some of her harshest critics.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Thurmond friends and political proteges \u2014 who earlier had questioned her story and criticized her motives \u2014 complimented Washington-Williams on her poise and grace.<\/p>\n<p>Washington-Williams, 78, revealed that she is the biracial daughter of the late Strom Thurmond Wednesday in a news conference in downtown Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, her face has rarely been absent from local and network news shows, including appearances on CBS\u2019 \u201c60 Minutes II\u201d on Wednesday and NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d on Thursday morning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics of Thurmond&#8217;s daughter change tune The State by JENNIFER TALHELM and AARON GOULD SHEININ Essie Mae Washington-Williams apparently has won over some of her harshest critics. On Thursday, Thurmond friends and political proteges&#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-5127","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-1kH","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\/5127","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=5127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7341,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions\/7341"}],"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=5127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}