{"id":398,"date":"2016-05-09T03:25:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T03:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/?page_id=398"},"modified":"2016-05-09T03:25:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T03:25:15","slug":"the-strength-of-maria-and-her-mother-sylvia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/maria-elston-portrait\/the-strength-of-maria-and-her-mother-sylvia\/","title":{"rendered":"The strength of Maria and her mother, Sylvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Maria Akin Elston moved at a young age with her widowed mother,\u00a0Sylvia Arnold Akin, to Vincennes, Indiana, in the early 1800s, there was a newspaper story that insulted Sylvia for being an independent woman. Sylvia responded by\u00a0suing the man for slander and won a $1000 gold settlement. This incident set an example for Maria, who eventually became a member of one of the most powerful and successful families in Indiana history.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/maria-elston-portrait\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/05\/Maria-Elston-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Maria Elston\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/maria-elston-portrait\/\">Back to the main page on\u00a0Portrait of Maria Elston<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Maria Akin Elston moved at a young age with her widowed mother,\u00a0Sylvia Arnold Akin, to Vincennes, Indiana, in the early 1800s, there was a newspaper story that insulted Sylvia for being an independent woman. Sylvia responded by\u00a0suing the man &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/maria-elston-portrait\/the-strength-of-maria-and-her-mother-sylvia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"parent":394,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-398","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/398\/revisions\/402"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}