{"id":12941,"date":"2025-04-09T11:08:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T11:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/billie-jean-king-receives-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:08:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T11:08:32","slug":"billie-jean-king-receives-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/billie-jean-king-receives-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Jean King receives Hollywood Walk of Fame star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Legendary tennis player and social equality advocate Billie Jean King has received a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">King, 81, is the first woman to be given the honour in the new sports entertainment category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Hollywood Walk of Fame was previously reserved for stars of cinema, television, radio, theatre and music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The important thing is, I don&#8217;t want to be the last one,&#8221; said King.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My family loved music and movies. My mother would have loved this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her star is the 2,807th to be installed on the Walk of Fame, which began in 1960 and runs along along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c0kxxv03068o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary tennis player and social equality advocate Billie Jean King has received a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame. King, 81, is the first woman to be given the honour in the new sports entertainment category. The Hollywood Walk of Fame was previously reserved for stars of cinema, television, radio, theatre and music. &#8220;The important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12943,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12941\/revisions\/12943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}