{"id":50705,"date":"2019-10-14T14:31:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T09:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/?p=50705"},"modified":"2019-10-14T14:31:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T09:01:54","slug":"lisa-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/lisa-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Ray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-50706 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lisa-ray-600x314.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lisa-ray-600x314.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lisa-ray-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lisa-ray-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lisa-ray.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cross-cultural phenomenon, Lisa Ray is an internationally acclaimed performer, philanthropist and star with a reputation for taking on challenging issue-oriented films. Raised in Canada, Ray was discovered while on vacation in India and went on to become not only one of the most successful and memorable cover models in India but also an acclaimed, award-winning actress who starred in Canada\u2019s Oscar nominated film, Water, amongst other prestigious credits like \u2018Kasoor\u2019 in hindi cinema.<\/p>\n<p>Today Ray balances many professional and personal passions as a writer, a humanitarian, a wellness activist, an entrepreneur, an on camera personality and a performer whose multifaceted career spans three decades and several continents.<\/p>\n<p>After Ray was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma in mid-2009, \u00a0her forthright, courageous and humorous approach to navigating her experiences with this incurable blood cancer which she chronicled in her blog, \u2018The Yellow Diaries\u2019 have earned her international respect.<\/p>\n<p>She continues to travel extensively for speaking engagements, motivational talks and humanitarian causes. She is a contributing editor for Harper\u2019s Bazaar India. She recently signed a deal with her publisher Harper Collins, to write three more books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress, Model, Television host<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[581],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}