{"id":2922,"date":"2019-04-29T13:48:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T20:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2019-05-08T09:35:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T16:35:53","slug":"rip-john-singleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/29\/rip-john-singleton\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP John Singleton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John Singleton&#8217;s family released a statement today that he died after being taken off life support, about two weeks after the director suffered a major stroke.  He was 51.   <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singleton became the first black director to receive an Academy Award nomination, and the youngest to do so, and also received a screenplay nomination for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TgJS0OW36X4\">Boyz in the Hood<\/a>. His other films included &#8220;Poetic Justice,&#8221; &#8221;Rosewood&#8221; and &#8220;Shaft.&#8221;   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for your contribution Mr. Singleton.  You will be missed.  RIP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"920\" height=\"632\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/920x920.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/920x920.jpg 920w, https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/920x920-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/920x920-768x528.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div><p align=center><font color=\"#FF0000\">Thank you <font color=\"#FF6347\">for reading <font color=\"#FFA500\">today's post. \r\n<font color=\"#FFD700\">Have <font color=\"00FF00\">an <font color=\"40E0D0\">InterStellar <font color=\"800080\">Day! <font color=\"FE09FF\"> ~PrP   <\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Singleton&#8217;s family released a statement today that he died after being taken off life support, about two weeks after the director suffered a major stroke. He was 51. Singleton became the first black director to receive an Academy Award &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/29\/rip-john-singleton\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,285,366,75],"tags":[391,389,387,388],"class_list":["post-2922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-films","category-movies","category-people","tag-academy-award-nomination","tag-boyz-in-the-hood","tag-john-singleton","tag-rip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}