{"id":3037,"date":"2007-10-17T09:22:35","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T15:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2007-10-17T09:27:31","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T15:27:31","slug":"cheney-the-black-sheep-of-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/cheney-the-black-sheep-of-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheney &#8216;the black sheep of family&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=15353642&#038;ft=1&#038;f=3\">AP\/NPR<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though they may spar across the political aisle, Vice President <strong>Dick Cheney<\/strong> is close enough to Democratic presidential hopeful <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong> to call him &#8220;cousin.&#8221; Eighth cousin, that is.<br \/>\n<strong>Lynne Cheney<\/strong>, the vice president&#8217;s wife, revealed this tantalizing bit of political trivia during a television interview Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently Cheney&#8217;s wife discovered the link while researching her memoirs.<br \/>\nA spokesman for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\">Obama Presidential Campaign<\/a> said, &#8220;obviously Cheney is the black sheep of the family.&#8221;<br \/>\nGotta love family history. I&#8217;ve had a lot of fun tracing our family history back using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/\">Geni<\/a> and other online services. I&#8217;m interesting in finding out more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edmund_Pendleton\">Pendleton<\/a> pedigree, which is on my mom&#8217;s side of the family. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to her spokeswoman, Sen. Obama, D-Ill., is a descendent of Mareen Duvall. This French Huguenot&#8217;s son married the granddaughter of a Richard Cheney, who arrived in Maryland in the late 1650&#8217;s from England, said Ginny Justice, a spokeswoman for Lynne Cheney.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Got any interesting history in your family tree?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the AP\/NPR: Though they may spar across the political aisle, Vice President Dick Cheney is close enough to Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama to call him &#8220;cousin.&#8221; Eighth cousin, that is. Lynne Cheney, the vice president&#8217;s wife, revealed this tantalizing bit of political trivia during a television interview Tuesday. Apparently Cheney&#8217;s wife discovered the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/cheney-the-black-sheep-of-family\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cheney &#8216;the black sheep of family&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[85,201,203,202,204],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mi-familia","tag-barack-obama","tag-cheney","tag-cousins","tag-geneology","tag-lynne"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-MZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}