{"id":166157,"date":"2025-09-28T14:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T14:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/166157\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T14:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T14:49:14","slug":"serena-williams-speaks-out-over-cotton-plant-as-decoration-in-hotel-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/166157\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams speaks out over cotton plant as decoration in hotel | Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/serena-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Serena Williams<\/a> has spoken out after finding a cotton plant in her hotel in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/new-york\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a> City.<\/p>\n<p>The tennis superstar spotted the decoration on a hallway table in an unnamed establishment while she was in the Big Apple to help launch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/kim-kardashian\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Kardashian<\/a>\u2019s collaboration between SKIMS and Nike.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How do we feel about cotton as decoration?&#8221; Williams says in a video posted to her Instagram stories. &#8220;Personally, for me, it doesn&#8217;t feel great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams then rubs some of the buds on her nails and shudders. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if she was voicing opposition to the feel of the plant or to its historic ties to slavery in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serena Williams has spoken out after finding a cotton plant in her hotel in New York City. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-166157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}