{"id":186574,"date":"2025-09-28T01:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T01:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/186574\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T01:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T01:48:11","slug":"serena-williams-speaks-out-over-cotton-plant-as-decoration-in-hotel-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/186574\/","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":186575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-186574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}