{"id":159013,"date":"2025-06-15T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=159013"},"modified":"2025-06-15T15:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T19:17:38","slug":"for-fathers-day-presley-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=159013","title":{"rendered":"For Father’s Day:"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPhoto by Alfred Wertheimer, 1956<\/i><\/p>\n

\nBecause when you become a father, you never know how it\u2019ll all turn out. <\/p>\n

Vernon looks like an anvil dropped on him from the sky, an anvil in the shape of his famous son.<\/p>\n

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Hollywood Photo Archive\/Mediapunch\/Shutterstock (10195161a)
Elivs Presley
Elvis Presley Archive 1973<\/p><\/div>\n

\nLisa Marie recalled the only time her dad ever spanked her.<\/p>\n

She misbehaved, and he told her to stop. Because she was 5 or 6, she kept doing whatever it was and he gave her a light spank on the tush. She probably cried a little bit and then bounced back and rode around on her tricycle. Whatever. Moment forgotten. A blip in her day.<\/p>\n

Much later that night – she said it had to have been 2, 3 in the morning, Elvis woke her up, all emotional, and told her how sorry he was and he\u2019d never do it again. <\/p>\n

He had been sitting around for HOURS worrying about what he had done. <\/p>\n

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