{"id":1915,"date":"2004-01-07T11:33:08","date_gmt":"2004-01-07T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/01\/07\/ma-dean-we-always-treated-servants-wel"},"modified":"2004-01-07T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2004-01-07T15:33:08","slug":"ma-dean-we-always-treated-servants-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/07\/ma-dean-we-always-treated-servants-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Ma Dean: We Always Treated Servants Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2211'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean may have grown up<br \/>\non tony Park Avenue and summered with the swells at East Hampton&#8217;s<br \/>\nthen-whites-only Maidstone Club, but his mother, Andree Maitland Dean,<br \/>\ninsists her son&#8217;s roots are practically working class.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Howard didn&#8217;t have the least bit of a glamorous upbringing,&#8221; Ma<br \/>\nDean told the New York Times last week. &#8220;When I was growing up, we<br \/>\ndidn&#8217;t even treat the servants like servants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in her humble multimillion dollar upper East Side digs, Mrs.<br \/>\nDean told the Times that every time she had a baby, she&#8217;d be forced to<br \/>\nconvert the dining room into a bedroom for the newborn. In fact, space<br \/>\nwas so tight there was barely enough room for baby Howard&#8217;s live-in<br \/>\nnurse.\n<\/p>\n<p>from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phxnews.com\/fullstory.php?article=8470\"> PHXnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean may have grown up on tony Park Avenue and summered with the swells at East Hampton&#8217;s then-whites-only Maidstone Club, but his mother, Andree Maitland Dean, insists her son&#8217;s roots are practically working class. &#8220;Howard didn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/07\/ma-dean-we-always-treated-servants-well\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}