{"id":242655,"date":"2022-01-07T15:16:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T21:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=242655"},"modified":"2022-01-07T15:40:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T21:40:25","slug":"sidney-poitier-passes-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=242655","title":{"rendered":"Actor Sidney Poitier Passes at 94"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-242657\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Portier-Sydney-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Portier-Sydney-2.jpg 194w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Portier-Sydney-2-131x175.jpg 131w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Sidney Poitier, who played roles of such dignity and intelligence that he transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, becoming along the way the first Black actor to win an Oscar for best lead performance and the first to be a top box-office draw, has died. He was 94.<\/p>\n<p>Few movie stars had such an influence both on and off the screen. Before Poitier, the son of Bahaman tomato farmers, no Black actor had a sustained career as a lead performer or could get a film produced based on his own star power. Before Poitier, few Black actors were permitted a break from the stereotypes of bug-eyed servants and grinning entertainers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Sidney Poitier, who played roles of such dignity and intelligence that he transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, becoming along the way the first Black actor to win an Oscar for best lead performance and the first to be a top box-office draw, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":242656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242666,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242655\/revisions\/242666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/242656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}