{"id":12402,"date":"2023-01-20T11:03:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T05:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/listing\/dr-sumithra-peiris\/"},"modified":"2023-01-20T11:07:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T05:37:03","slug":"dr-sumithra-peiris","status":"publish","type":"rtcl_listing","link":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/listing\/dr-sumithra-peiris\/","title":{"rendered":"DR. SUMITHRA PEIRIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DR. SUMITHRA PEIRIS &#8211; \u00a0(24 March 1935 \u2013 19 January 2023) She was the first female film director from Sri Lanka, and was known as the &#8220;Poetess of Sinhala Cinema&#8221;. She also held the post of Sri Lanka&#8217;s ambassador to France, Spain and the United Nations in the late 1990s. Of her films the more popular ones are Gehenu Lamai, Ganga Addara and Yahaluvo. She was married to the most prolific Sri Lankan film director Dr. Lester James Peries. Her funeral will be held on Saturday January, 21, 2022. The remain would be placed at her sisters residence in Gower street colombo 05.\u00a0 Her outstanding contribution towards the advancement of Sri Lankan film working alongside her husband, the late Dr. Lester James Peiris who is world- renowned as the Father of Sri Lankan Cinema, is to be celebrated.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-12402","rtcl_listing","type-rtcl_listing","status-publish","hentry","rtcl_category-ob-chr","rtcl_location-western-province","listing-item","rtcl-listing-item"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rtcl_listing\/12402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rtcl_listing"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rtcl_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rtcl_listing\/12402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}