{"id":190999,"date":"2025-09-23T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=190999"},"modified":"2025-09-22T21:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T01:32:11","slug":"marion-keisker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=190999","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Who do you sound like?&#8221; &#8212; Marion Keisker to 18-year-old Elvis Presley, July 18, 1953"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/FB_IMG_1689682421981-1-e1721910890194.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"572\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-192991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/FB_IMG_1689682421981-1-e1721910890194.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/FB_IMG_1689682421981-1-e1721910890194-200x191.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/FB_IMG_1689682421981-1-e1721910890194-400x381.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/FB_IMG_1689682421981-1-e1721910890194-100x95.webp 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s her birthday. I finally wrote about her &#8211; and my theory about her &#8220;role&#8221; in &#8220;discovering&#8221; Elvis &#8211; for <a href=\"https:\/\/libertiesjournal.com\/online-articles\/marion-keisker-loved-elvis-first\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">my column at Liberties<\/a>! That was a long time coming! In the piece I mentioned her reunion with Elvis in Germany in 1960, and the picture taken of the moment. Here it is: <\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_7914.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"724\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-194384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_7914.jpeg 408w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_7914-113x200.jpeg 113w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_7914-225x400.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_7914-56x100.jpeg 56w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<small><em>Thank you so much for stopping by. If you like what I do, and if you feel inclined to support my work, here&#8217;s a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.venmo.com\/u\/Sheila-OMalley-3\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">my Venmo account<\/a>. And I&#8217;ve launched a Substack, <a href=\"https:\/\/sheilaomalley.substack.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheila Variations 2.0<\/a>, if you&#8217;d like to subscribe.<\/em> <\/small><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/sheilaomalley.substack.com\/embed\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" style=\"border:1px solid #EEE; background:white;\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s her birthday. I finally wrote about her &#8211; and my theory about her &#8220;role&#8221; in &#8220;discovering&#8221; Elvis &#8211; for my column at Liberties! That was a long time coming! In the piece I mentioned her reunion with Elvis in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=190999\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,39],"tags":[2095,2715,2753],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190999"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192989,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190999\/revisions\/192989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}