{"id":17410,"date":"2013-01-04T20:10:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T01:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=17410"},"modified":"2013-01-04T20:10:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T01:10:55","slug":"barbara-b-mann-turns-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/01\/barbara-b-mann-turns-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara B. Mann turns 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17411\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/barbara-b-mann-turns-100\/b-b-mann\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17411\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17411\" title=\"B B Mann\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/B-B-Mann-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/B-B-Mann-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/B-B-Mann.jpg 712w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara B. Mann<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lee County&#8217;s leading lady of the arts celebrated a milestone. Barbara B. Mann turned 100 years old.<\/p>\n<p>She celebrated at a performance of Catch Me if You Can, in the theater named after her. Her son, Frank Mann, now a county commissioner and former state senator helped lobby to build the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall in the 80&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>In 1948, Mann founded the Fort Myers Community Concert Association. It brings 5 major international concerts to Lee County a year..<\/p>\n<p>In the last 60 years, Mann has built up theater in Southwest Florida, bringing in hundreds of shows to the area, along with a sense of culture.<\/p>\n<p>And now that Mann&#8217;s 100 &#8212; her next goal is to be on the Today Show in Willard Scott&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/barbara-b-mann-turns-100\/b-b-mann-hall\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17412\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17412\" title=\"B B Mann Hall\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/B-B-Mann-Hall-300x145.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/B-B-Mann-Hall-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/B-B-Mann-Hall.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>centennial birthday segment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee County&#8217;s leading lady of the arts celebrated a milestone. Barbara B. Mann turned 100 years old. She celebrated at a performance of Catch Me if You Can, in the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}