{"id":44007,"date":"2016-02-29T12:58:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T10:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/44007\/on-this-day-in-history-first-african-american-oscar\/"},"modified":"2016-02-29T13:01:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T11:01:27","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-first-african-american-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2016\/02\/29\/on-this-day-in-history-first-african-american-oscar\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day in History: First African American Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apart from Hattie&#8217;s Academy Award, <em>Gone with the wind<\/em> swept through the Oscars like a tornado, winning Best Picture, Best Director (Victor Fleming), Best Actress (Vivien Leigh), Best Screenplay (Sidney Howard), and Best Art Direction, Film Editing and Cinematography.<\/p>\n<p>Hattie McDaniel receives the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1940\u00a0for her role as Mammy in <em>Gone with the wind<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/e7t4pTNZshA' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>The definitive Mammy and Scarlet scene in <em>Gone with the wind<\/em>. Talk about manipulation, the birth of eating disorders and fiddledy dee.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/FZ7r2OVu1ss' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Leap Day in 1940 Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Academy Award.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7782,"featured_media":44011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2704,2681],"tags":[3591,3592,3593],"class_list":["post-44007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-first-african-american-oscar","tag-gone-with-the-wind","tag-hattie-mcdaniel"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["first african american oscar","gone with the wind","Hattie McDaniel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}