{"id":5402,"date":"2010-02-28T18:10:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T22:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=5402"},"modified":"2010-03-11T16:43:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T20:43:13","slug":"in-loving-memory-of-kandy-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=5402","title":{"rendered":"In Loving Memory of Kandy Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5403\" style=\"width: 315px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/0217.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5403 \" title=\"Kandy Johnson\" src=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/0217.jpg\" alt=\"Kandy Johnson\" width=\"315\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/0217.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/0217-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Loving Memory of Kandy Johnson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Kandy Johnson was the drag persona of Ken Johnson of Sydney, Australia. \u00a0 Known as a true icon to the Sydney Gay community Ken left his mark as a performer, club owner, and author. \u00a0Sadly, Ken (Kandy) passed away on February 27, 2010 after a long battler with cancer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_5405\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5405\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/0165.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5405\" title=\"Kandy Johnson\" src=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/0165.jpg\" alt=\"Kandy Johnson\" width=\"200\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Loving Memory of Kandy Johnson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As the first comedian at Australia\u2019s first gay nightclub and an original Les Girl, Kandy was an camp icon even by the early 60s. But Ken Johnson went on to own some of Sydney\u2019s most significant camp\/gay\/lesbian night spots \u2013 the Garden of Eden in Enmore, Kandy\u2019s Purple Onion Kensington, the Park Inn Woollahra and Ken\u2019s Karate Klub Kensington.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ken (Kandy) published his auto-biography in 2009 titled: &#8220;Kandy: What a Drag!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?v=wall&amp;viewas=0&amp;gid=71263256384\"> Visit the Kandy Johnson tribute page on Facebook.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_5404\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5404\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/034.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5404 \" title=\"Kandy Johnson\" src=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/034.jpg\" alt=\"Kandy Johnson\" width=\"241\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/034.jpg 401w, https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/034-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Loving Memory of Kandy Johnson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kandy Johnson was the drag persona of Ken Johnson of Sydney, Australia. \u00a0 Known as a true icon to the&#8230; <span class=\"gridview-grid-post-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/?p=5402\">read more<span class=\"gridview-sr-only\"> In Loving Memory of Kandy Johnson<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[45,22],"class_list":["post-5402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainers","tag-australia","tag-in-loving-memory","wpcat-6-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourcommunityroots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}