{"id":22194,"date":"2016-06-28T07:27:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T14:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=22194"},"modified":"2016-06-30T19:05:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T02:05:08","slug":"celebration-of-life-for-lew-watanabe-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=22194","title":{"rendered":"Celebration of Life for Lew Watanabe Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9070\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?attachment_id=9070\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9070\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9070\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9070\" title=\"lewcityb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lewcityb-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lewcityb-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lewcityb-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lewcityb-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lewcityb.jpg 792w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lew Watanabe at the dedication of his Weeping Wall Memorial Copyright 1999 The Coburn Group   click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadreweekly.com\/current-news\/celebration-of-lew-watanabes-life-june-30\/\" target=\"_blank\">SierraMadreWeekly.com<\/a><\/em> &#8211; A Celebration of Life for Lew Watanabe will be held at Sierra Madre Elementary School auditorium on Thursday, June 30, at 1:30 p.m., followed by a reception at The Japanese Garden on the school grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The graveside service at Sierra Madre Pioneer Cemetery will be held that morning at 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, please make a contribution to Lew\u2019s Japanese Garden Memorial Fund. A Gofundme account has been set up with monies raised to go to the maintenance and upkeep of the garden. Donations can be made by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l\/yAQEq_LOxAQFJ8uPTxGUGaCfsTTiMzCGueCelTq_kSaXXsA\/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gofundme.com%2F29ja8j7a\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from SierraMadreWeekly.com &#8211; A Celebration of Life for Lew Watanabe will be held at Sierra Madre Elementary School auditorium on Thursday, June 30, at 1:30 p.m., followed by a reception at The Japanese Garden&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}