{"id":8771,"date":"2010-05-23T00:47:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T04:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=8771"},"modified":"2010-05-23T00:47:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T04:47:02","slug":"isaiah-washington-passport-to-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=8771","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah Washington &#8211; Passport to Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>When actor and philanthropist Isaiah Washington found out through DNA that his roots traced back to Sierra Leone he set off on a path to visit his ancestral home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>May 22, 2006 Isaiah excitedly took his first of many trips to Sierra Leone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sem.lamtech.sl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Isaiah-arrives-in-Sierra-Leone.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Isaiah arrives in Sierra Leone\" src=\"http:\/\/sem.lamtech.sl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Isaiah-arrives-in-Sierra-Leone.bmp\" alt=\"Isaiah arrives in Sierra Leone\" width=\"329\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>In Spring 2010 Isaiah returned to Sierra Leone to receive his Sierra Leone citizenship and passport and his activities were closely followed by the African Channel!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sem.lamtech.sl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Isaiah-Washington-proudly-shows-his-Sierra-Leonean-passport.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8689\" title=\"Isaiah Washington proudly shows his Sierra Leonean passport\" src=\"http:\/\/sem.lamtech.sl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Isaiah-Washington-proudly-shows-his-Sierra-Leonean-passport.bmp\" alt=\"Isaiah Washington proudly shows his Sierra Leonean passport\" width=\"331\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Isaiah proudly shows off his Sierra Leone passport<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Isaiah was honoured to be the first African American to receive citizenship in Sierra Leone and stated he was sure that he will not be the last.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sem.lamtech.sl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Isaiah-Washington-in-Sierra-Leone.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8688\" title=\"Isaiah Washington in Sierra Leone\" src=\"http:\/\/sem.lamtech.sl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Isaiah-Washington-in-Sierra-Leone.bmp\" alt=\"Isaiah Washington in Sierra Leone\" width=\"360\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p><em><strong>&#8220;I am being prepared for something much greater than myself,&#8221;<\/strong> Isaiah Washington.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Here&#8217;s a sneak preview of Isaiah&#8217;s upcoming documentary film, <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>&#8220;Isaiah Washington &#8211; Passport to Sierra Leone&#8221;\u009d <\/em><\/span>produced by The African Channel, fans are sure to be delighted with the full version to be released August, 2010!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><object classid=\"clsid:02bf25d5-8c17-4b23-bc80-d3488abddc6b\" width=\"422\" height=\"212\" codebase=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/qtactivex\/qtplugin.cab#version=6,0,2,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Isaiah_trailer_60sm.mov\" \/><embed type=\"video\/quicktime\" width=\"422\" height=\"212\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Isaiah_trailer_60sm.mov\"><\/embed><\/object><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When actor and philanthropist Isaiah Washington found out through DNA that his roots traced back to Sierra Leone he set off on a path to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[745,1],"tags":[2542,3161,3162],"class_list":["post-8771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-and-entertainment","category-uncategorized","tag-isaiah-washington","tag-passport-to-sierra-leone","tag-the-africa-channel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}