{"id":66425,"date":"2015-12-06T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=66425"},"modified":"2015-12-06T22:00:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T03:00:16","slug":"george-lucas-cicely-tyson-carole-king-and-2-others-to-be-celebrated-at-kennedy-center-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/06\/george-lucas-cicely-tyson-carole-king-and-2-others-to-be-celebrated-at-kennedy-center-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"George Lucas, Cicely Tyson, Carole King and 2 others to be celebrated at Kennedy Center Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66427\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66427\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/640px-George_Lucas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66427\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/640px-George_Lucas.jpg\" alt=\"American Filmmaker, George Lucas (Photo from Wikipedia)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/640px-George_Lucas.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/640px-George_Lucas-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Filmmaker, George Lucas<br \/>(Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Lucas\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON\u2014Less than two weeks before the release of the new \u201cStar Wars\u201d movie, George Lucas is about to receive the nation&#8217;s highest award for lifetime achievement in the arts.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas and four others will be celebrated at Sunday night&#8217;s Kennedy Center Honors. President Barack Obama will be a late arrival at the gala after delivering a national address at 8 p.m. The president and first lady Michelle Obama were also holding a White House reception for the honorees late Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas created the \u201cStar Wars\u201d and \u201cIndiana Jones\u201d movie franchises. This year&#8217;s other honorees are singer-songwriter Carole King, actress and singer Rita Moreno, conductor Seiji Ozawa and actress Cicely Tyson.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Colbert will host the gala for the second time. It will be broadcast Dec. 29 on CBS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014Less than two weeks before the release of the new \u201cStar Wars\u201d movie, George Lucas is about to receive the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":66427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-66425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-original","mauthors-ben-nuckols","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66425","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}