{"id":34335,"date":"2014-12-07T16:28:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T08:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=34335"},"modified":"2014-12-10T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T03:22:08","slug":"f-sionil-jose-honoured-promoted-in-frances-order-of-arts-and-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/07\/f-sionil-jose-honoured-promoted-in-frances-order-of-arts-and-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"F. Sionil Jose honoured, promoted in France\u2019s Order of Arts and Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34337\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34337\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sionil-jose.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34337\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sionil-jose.jpg\" alt=\"From the Facebook page of F Sionil Jose\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sionil-jose.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sionil-jose-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the Facebook page of F. Sionil Jose; photo taken at the Dec. 3 awards ceremony at the CCP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines &#8211; National Artist for Literature F. Sionil Jose has been promoted to the rank of Officier (Officer) in France\u2019s Order des Arts et des Letters (Order of Arts and Letters) from his previous rank of Chevalier (Knight) in the French Order of Arts and Letters, bestowed in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The award was conferred by French Ambassador Gilles Garachon, in recognition of Jose\u2019s valuable contributions to Philippine literature. The ceremony, which also marked Jose\u2019s 90th birthday, was held on December 3 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>The French ambassador expressed his gratitude to Jose for his contributions in the literary field, which have allowed readers across the globe to better grasp the history, culture and values of the Filipinos.<\/p>\n<p>The French translation of seven of Jose\u2019s books \u2013 among these, the five novels in the Rosales Saga, God Stealer and Viajero \u2013 have been sold in Paris bookstores since 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines &#8211; National Artist for Literature F. Sionil Jose has been promoted to the rank of Officier (Officer) in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":34337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art-and-culture","category-breaking","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}