{"id":16674,"date":"2019-04-29T23:36:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T06:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16674"},"modified":"2019-04-29T23:36:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T06:36:15","slug":"boyz-n-the-hood-director-john-singleton-dies-aged-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16674","title":{"rendered":"Boyz N the Hood director John Singleton dies aged 51"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Singleton, an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker best known for directing &#8220;Boyz N the Hood&#8221; and &#8220;Poetic Justice,&#8221; has died Monday after he was\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/john-singleton-film-director-of-boyz-n-the-hood-has-been-put-on-life-support-after-suffering-a-stroke\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">taken off life support<\/a><\/span>following complications from a stroke, a family representative confirmed. He was 51.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are sad to relay that John Singleton has died. John passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family and friends,&#8221; the family statement said. &#8220;We want to thank the amazing doctors at Cedars-Sinai Hospital for their expert care and kindness and we again want thank all of John&#8217;s fans, friends and colleagues for all of the love and support they showed him during this difficult time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAcademy\/status\/1122960988569985024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mourned the loss<\/a>\u00a0of the &#8220;youngest-ever Best Director nominee and an inspiration to us all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Singleton, an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-ca-local","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16675,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674\/revisions\/16675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}