{"id":78140,"date":"2018-06-08T00:07:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T06:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=78140"},"modified":"2018-06-07T16:46:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T23:46:43","slug":"lester-james-peries-remembering-film-icon-lester-james-peries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/06\/08\/lester-james-peries-remembering-film-icon-lester-james-peries\/","title":{"rendered":"Lester James Peries  Remembering film icon Lester James Peries"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Lester James Peries\u00a0 Remembering film icon Lester James Peries<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Sri Lanka\u2019s world famous film director, story writer and producer Lester James Peries passed away at the age of 99 on April 29, 2018. To remember\u00a0 and pay tribute to him one of his films will be screened. Following that a discussion will take place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/lester.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/lester.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/lester-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Date: Monday June 11, 2018 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Place: Scarborough Civic Centre, 150 Borough Drive, ON\u00a0 M1P 4N7, Meeting room # 1<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We cordially invite everyone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This is a free program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Function arranged by Centre for Creative Thoughts and Action<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lester James Peries\u00a0 Remembering film icon Lester James Peries Sri Lanka\u2019s world famous film director, story writer and producer Lester James Peries passed away at the age of 99 on April 29, 2018. To remember\u00a0 and pay tribute to him one of his films will be screened. Following that a discussion will take place. Date: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}