{"id":1332,"date":"2007-06-10T20:36:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T03:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2007-06-10T20:36:56","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T03:36:56","slug":"ousmane-sembene-1923-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/10\/ousmane-sembene-1923-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Ousmane Semb\u00e8ne, 1923-2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.walf.sn\/images\/p8_4567.jpg\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\"\/>Wow, the world has just lost one of its premiere filmmakers, Senegal&#8217;s Ousmane Semb\u00e8ne. (Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1140\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=486\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I had the pleasure of meeting him once in New York a couple of years ago, and am proud to say that I shook his hand, but the world has been diminished by the loss of this great man.<\/p>\n<p>Various obits: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/6738949.stm\">BBC<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/world\/AP-Obit-Ousmane.html?_r=1&#038;pagewanted=print&#038;oref=login\">AP<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walf.sn\/culture\/suite.php?rub=5&#038;id_art=38417\">Walf Fadjri<\/a> (French), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesoleil.sn\/article.php3?id_article=25757\">Le Soleil<\/a> (French)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, the world has just lost one of its premiere filmmakers, Senegal&#8217;s Ousmane Semb\u00e8ne. (Previously: here, and here) I had the pleasure of meeting him once in New York a couple of years ago, and am proud to say that I shook his hand, but the world has been diminished by the loss of this great man. Various obits: BBC, AP, Walf Fadjri (French), Le Soleil (French)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[131,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-movies","category-senegal","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-lu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}