{"id":2121,"date":"1965-04-07T17:37:30","date_gmt":"1965-04-07T17:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2012-07-22T23:55:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T23:55:50","slug":"f-s-whittaker-lawyer-father-of-peorian-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1965\/04\/07\/f-s-whittaker-lawyer-father-of-peorian-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"F.S. Whittaker, Lawyer, Father Of Peorian, Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Scott Whittaker, Juliette&#8217;s attorney father from Houston, Texas, passed away in Houston at age 65. Whittaker was an impressive Civil Rights attorney, whose career included landmark victories such as<em> Smith vs. Allwright<\/em> in 1944 &#8212; a case that opened Democratic elections to black voters across Texas.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his impressive legal career, F.S. Whittaker was also a published poet and playwright at the time of his death, proving that artistic innovation ran in Whittaker family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Scott Whittaker, Juliette&#8217;s attorney father from Houston, Texas, passed away in Houston at age 65. Whittaker was an impressive Civil Rights attorney, whose career included landmark victories such as Smith vs. Allwright [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,50],"tags":[160,424],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-was-juliette-whittaker","category-juliette-whittaker","tag-f-s-whittaker","tag-juliette-whittaker"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3168,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/3168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}