{"id":1109,"date":"2015-02-17T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interbellum.de\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2015-02-17T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T09:17:00","slug":"billie-holiday-was-performing-in-a-manhattan-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/?p=1109","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Billie Holiday was performing in a Manhattan club in 1943, and between sets she took a seat at a table and ordered her usual Top and Bottom (a mixture of gin and port wine). Two white sailors from the South, on leave in the Big Apple, approached her, wanting to know where a \u201cdarkie\u201d got off wearing a mink coat. When Lady told them to get lost they snuffed out their cigarettes in her mink. Without pause, Holiday told them to meet her outside, if they had any balls. At which point Holiday proceeded to beat them both unconscious with her fists. It was a bad idea to mess with Lady Day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Rich English on the toughness of Billie Holiday (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/sinatrra.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">sinatrra<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Three cheers for Billie&hellip;!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billie Holiday was performing in a Manhattan club in 1943, and between sets she took a seat at a table and ordered her usual Top and Bottom (a mixture of gin and port wine). Two white sailors from the South, on leave in the Big Apple, approached her, wanting to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[232,223],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interbellum.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}