{"id":1424,"date":"1999-07-01T11:51:02","date_gmt":"1999-07-01T11:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/1999\/07\/01\/anyone-for-tennis\/"},"modified":"2021-06-11T23:13:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T23:13:29","slug":"anyone-for-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/1999\/07\/01\/anyone-for-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone for Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:51:02 EDT<br \/>From: Shannon<br \/>To: &quot;James A. Landrith, Jr.&quot; racial_politics@hotmail.com<br \/>Subject: Anyone for Tennis<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m not much of a tennis fan myself, being a Brit the game doesn&#39;t offer much<br \/>for me to cheer about. I happened upon an Associated Press piece being<br \/>carried by my local Orange County Register daily paper today. It appears a<br \/>certain Alexandra Stevenson, an 18 year old currently doing well at Wimbledon<br \/>may be the child of married black basketball great Julius &quot;Dr. J&quot; Erving and<br \/>Samantha Stevenson, a free-lance journalist. The AP informs us &quot;Samantha<br \/>Stevenson is white; her daughter [Alexandra] is black.&quot; The one-drop rule is<br \/>alive and well ladies and gentlemen.<br \/>Shannon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:51:02 EDTFrom: ShannonTo: &quot;James A. Landrith, Jr.&quot; racial_politics@hotmail.comSubject: Anyone for Tennis I&#39;m not much of a tennis fan myself, being a Brit the game doesn&#39;t offer muchfor me to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":7987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reader-forum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Letters-to-the-Editor.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-mY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2955,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/2955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}