{"id":351,"date":"2008-12-25T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2008\/12\/a-daughters-tribute.html"},"modified":"2008-12-25T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T00:02:00","slug":"a-daughters-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"A Daughter&#8217;s Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kitt McDonald Shapiro on her mother, the late, great Eartha Kitt from a 2005 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2005\/08\/28\/sunday\/main798791.shtml\">piece<\/a> for the CBS Sunday Morning show:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The one thing I always knew about my mother was that she always loved me,&#8221; said Kitt Shapiro. &#8220;And I give her tremendous credit for being able to, throughout our lives, let me know that she always loved me, and that was always unconditional.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was pure instinct, said Shapiro, that guided her mother.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She had accomplished so much on her own with no family and nobody there guide her. There&#8217;s something there. Her name, Eartha, is her given name, and she is of the earth, and she is so much of the earth. She has that richness, and she&#8217;s sturdy, she&#8217;s firm. Her name is perfect for her.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kitt McDonald Shapiro on her mother, the late, great Eartha Kitt from a 2005 piece for the CBS Sunday Morning show: &#8220;The one thing I always knew about my mother was that she always loved me,&#8221; said Kitt Shapiro. &#8220;And I give her tremendous credit for being able to, throughout our lives, let me know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=351\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Daughter&#8217;s Tribute<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2034],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-eartha-kitt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}