{"id":395,"date":"2015-04-27T12:32:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T16:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/wideview\/?p=395"},"modified":"2015-04-27T15:47:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T19:47:17","slug":"a-celebration-of-august-wilsons-70th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/wideview\/a-celebration-of-august-wilsons-70th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"A celebration of August Wilson’s 70th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"August<\/a>

August Wilson in April of 2001. The celebrated American playwright was born April 27, 1945. (Bill Wade\/Post-Gazette)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"August<\/a>

August Wilson in the Hill District on Bedford Avenue. (Bill Wade\/Post-Gazette)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"At<\/a>

At the 2001 New York City premiere of “King Hedley II”, playwright August Wilson who holds his daughter Azula,3, in front of the Virginia Theatre. (Bill Wade\/Post-Gazette)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"August<\/a>

August Wilson talks with actor Anthony Chisholm during rehearsal of Wilson’s play “Radio Golf” at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., in 2005.(AP Photo\/ Michelle McLoughlin)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"On<\/a>

On the set for “Fences” at Pittsburgh Public Theater in 1999 are, from left, Keith Glover, Marion McClinton, August Wilson and John Henry Redwood. (Bill Wade\/Post-Gazette)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Pallbearers<\/a>

Pallbearers bring August Wilson’s casket out of Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall after a celebration of Wilson’s life. (Andy Starnes\/Post-Gazette)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"<\/a>

Sakina Ansari-Wilson, daughter of August Wilson, immediately following the unveiling of the historical marker at Wilson’s childhood home at 1727 Bedford Ave. in the Hill District. (Andy Starnes\/Post-Gazette)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Paul<\/a>

Paul Ellis Jr., a nephew of August Wilson, holds a portrait of the playwright in one of the small, humble rooms at 1727 Bedford Avenue in the Hill District. Wilson spent his formative childhood years in these rooms. (Steve Mellon\/Post-Gazette)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[21,22],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p679sS-6n","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/wideview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/wideview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/wideview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/wideview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/wideview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/wideview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/wideview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/wideview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/wideview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/wideview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}