{"id":28589,"date":"2008-04-02T16:04:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T21:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/04\/02\/28589-celebrities-and-friends-attend-sir-ed-memorial\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T16:04:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T21:04:34","slug":"celebrities-and-friends-attend-sir-ed-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/04\/02\/28589-celebrities-and-friends-attend-sir-ed-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities and friends attend Sir Ed memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/ianmckellen.jpg\" width=\"92\" height=\"135\" alt=\"ianmckellen.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgalignright no-lazyload\" \/> Celebrity guests including Lord of the Rings star Sir Ian McKellen, rugby great Sean Fitzpatrick and Flight of the Conchords comedian Rhys Darby were among those at a memorial service for Sir Edmund Hillary at Windsor Castle today. New Zealand opera singer Jonathan Lemalu sang the aria Lord God of Abraham, described by Prime Minister Helen Clark as a &#8220;very special performance by one of our most talented young singers&#8221;. Miss Clark said a karanga by Mereana Hond was &#8220;very, very emotional&#8221; and &#8220;very moving&#8221;. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nz.news.yahoo.com\/080402\/3\/4q5y.html\">Celebrities and friends attend Sir Ed memorial<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrity guests including Lord of the Rings star Sir Ian McKellen, rugby great Sean Fitzpatrick and Flight of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,14,49],"tags":[483,484],"class_list":["post-28589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-figwit","category-events","category-mckellen","tag-flight-of-the-conchords","tag-sir-edmund-hillary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7r7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}