{"id":31873,"date":"2013-02-20T09:03:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=31873"},"modified":"2013-02-20T16:15:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T21:15:55","slug":"happy-birthday-sir-sidney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/02\/happy-birthday-sir-sidney","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Sir Sidney!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/02\/happy-birthday-sir-sidney-31873.html\/sidney\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31874\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31874\" title=\"sidney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sidney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sidney.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sidney-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sidney-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Academy Award-winning actor and Bahamian native Sidney Poitier celebrated his birthday on February 20. He is 86-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Poitier is often remembered as a strong, handsome leading man who broke down Hollywood&#8217;s racial barriors while bringing charm and bravado to each and every one of his performances.<\/p>\n<p>He was the first African-American actor to be nominated for an Academy Award for his work in the film &#8220;The Defiant Ones&#8221; (1958). Five years later, for his brilliance in the film &#8220;Lilies of the Field&#8221; (1963), Mr Poitier became the first black man <em>ever<\/em> to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Poitier has directed several films as well, and has also earned a Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2002, he was granted an honorary Academy Award on the same night Denzel Washington won an Oscar for Best Actor.<\/p>\n<p>In his acceptance speech, Mr Washington looked up at Mr Poitier and said, &#8220;I&#8217;ll always be chasing you, Sidney. I&#8217;ll always be following in your footsteps. There&#8217;s nothing I&#8217;d rather do, sir.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here at BahamasB2B, we feel the same way.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday, Sir Sidney!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BahamasB2B would like to wish Academy Award-winning actor and Bahamian native Sidney Poitier a very happy birthday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1214],"class_list":["post-31873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-sidney-poitier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}