{"id":10162,"date":"2011-09-26T15:22:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T19:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10162"},"modified":"2011-09-26T13:30:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T17:30:29","slug":"rb-singer-vesta-williams-dead-at-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10162","title":{"rendered":"R&amp;B Singer Vesta Williams Dead At 53"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EL SEGUNDO, California<\/strong> &#8212; Big-voiced R&amp;B diva <strong>Vesta Williams<\/strong>, perhaps best-known for her 1980s hits <em>Don&#8217;t Blow A Good Thing<\/em> and <em>Congratulations<\/em>, has been found dead of a possible drug overdose in a Southern California hotel room. She was 53.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles County coroner&#8217;s <strong>Capt. John Kades<\/strong> says <strong>Williams<\/strong> was found dead at 6:15 p.m. Thursday in an El Segundo hotel room. An autopsy will determine the cause of death, but <strong>Kades<\/strong> says &#8220;this could be a drug overdose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Born <strong>Mary Vesta William<\/strong>s in Coshocton, Ohio, on Dec. 1, 1957, she had hits with <em>Once Bitten Twice Shy<\/em>, &#8216;<em>Sweet, Sweet Love<\/em> and the torch song <em>Congratulations<\/em>, where she emotionally bids goodbye to her ex, about to marry someone else, on his wedding day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EL SEGUNDO, California &#8212; Big-voiced R&amp;B diva Vesta Williams, perhaps best-known for her 1980s hits Don&#8217;t Blow A Good Thing and Congratulations, has been found dead of a possible drug overdose in a Southern California hotel room. She was 53. Los Angeles County coroner&#8217;s Capt. John Kades says Williams was found dead at 6:15 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}