{"id":2,"date":"2017-08-30T12:43:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T12:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/layers\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2018-02-21T21:50:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T02:50:48","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/miros\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-47 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/miros\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2017\/08\/Gilda-Miros-Vaanart-TV-publicty-70s-3-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/miros\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2017\/08\/Gilda-Miros-Vaanart-TV-publicty-70s-3-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/miros\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2017\/08\/Gilda-Miros-Vaanart-TV-publicty-70s-3-400x512.jpg 400w, https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/miros\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2017\/08\/Gilda-Miros-Vaanart-TV-publicty-70s-3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">The Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of American History is working to document and tell the story of Spanish-language broadcasting in the U.S. with an emphasis\u00a0on television, as part of a new initiative, \u201cEscuchame: the History of Spanish Language Broadcasting in the U.S.\u201d Materials from the career of New York-based broadcaster, theater and screen actress and author Gilda Mir\u00f3s were recently added to the national collections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Born in Puerto Rico, Mir\u00f3s worked with numerous radio and television stations including WADO-AM and WJIT-AM radio stations in New York, and WXTV-TV, Channel 41 (Univision) and WNJU-TV, Channel 47 (Telemundo), also in the New York area. While working for the Spanish Broadcasting System at WQBA-AM Miami, she hosted the first national live daily show to run simultaneously in New York and Los Angeles from Florida. Recently Puerto Rican Studies\/Hunter\/CUNY posted her oral history, and created the Gilda Mir\u00f3s file in their archives, which is available to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Raised in the Bronx, Gilda has appeared in films, on stage and on television\u00a0 in Mexico, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Her New York City radio programs transmitted from and to Latin America and Spain. She produced and narrated documentaries including: Viet Nam War\/Hispanics in NYC Prisons; \u201cMarch of Dimes\u201d\/ &#8220;The Eye Bank of NYC.\u201d She dubbed \u201cMother Angelica Live\u201d EWTN. Mir\u00f3s has 12 books: \u201cCelia Cruz &amp; Sonora Matancera\u201d (2003 Ebook\/Soft\/Audio 2017); \u201cA Portrait of Puerto Rico\u201d (2005); \u201cHortense and Her Happy Ducklings,\u201d a bilingual children\u2019s story, (2006); \u201cMemorias De Los Espiritus y MI Madre\u201d (2009); \u201cSpirit Messages To My Mother\u201d (2010); \u201cMystical Wings; \u201cAlas M\u00edsticas (201; \u201cIn Touch With Mom in Spirit\u201d \u201c\u00a1En Contacto Con Mami en Espiritu ,\u201cDe La Monta\u01f9a Venimos \u2013 \u00ccconos Latinoamericanos.\u201d (2017 Ebook\/Soft\/Audio 2016. \u201cPoetisas de Hispanoamericana\u201d (2016 Audio). Presently she produces \u201cLatin Icons Past &amp; Present\u201d for All Access Cable TV in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of American History is working to document and tell the story of Spanish-language broadcasting in the U.S. with an emphasis\u00a0on television, as part of a new initiative, \u201cEscuchame: the History of Spanish Language Broadcasting in the U.S.\u201d Materials from the career of New York-based broadcaster, theater and screen actress and author [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"metadata":{"_wp_page_template":["page-full.php"],"_edit_lock":["1552596285:35"],"_edit_last":["54"],"_wpac_members_redirect_to":[""],"_wpac_show_in_search":["0"],"_wpac_show_excerpt_in_search":["0"],"_wpac_nonmembers_redirect_to":[""],"ase_map_component_start_point":["a:2:{s:3:\"lat\";d:29.760000000000001563194018672220408916473388671875;s:3:\"lng\";d:-95.3799999999999954525264911353588104248046875;}"]},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/miros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/miros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/miros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/miros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/miros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/miros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/miros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}