{"id":15847,"date":"2013-07-21T20:07:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T20:07:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-07-21T20:07:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T20:07:47","slug":"Charice-s-emotional-tribute-to-Cory-Monteith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=15847","title":{"rendered":"Charice\u2019s emotional tribute to Cory Monteith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Filipina singer Charice Pempengco penned an emotional tribute to her late \u201cGlee\u201d co-star, Cory Monteith, revealing she never thanked him for making her feel special on her birthday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Charice \u2013 who played Sunshine Corazon on season two of the FOX show \u2013 wrote in a <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2013\/07\/22\/opinion\/glee-charice-cory\/index.html\">CNN op-ed<\/a> that the Canadian heartthrob was \u201clike his character Finn Hudson, Cory was so cool that everything seemed alright with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then described a May 9, 2011 shoot on the eve of her birthday where she felt alone without her family and friends back in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a tad emotional when the clock struck 12 midnight \u2013 not because I was tired \u2013 but because May 10 was my birthday. And I, a girl from the barrio of Gulod in the far-flung Philippines, was alone in America,\u201d she wrote. \u201cMy family was not there, my friends were not there, I didn&#8217;t have my loved ones there to celebrate my birthday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charice then recalled Monteith \u2013 who had Googled her and found her birth date<\/strong> \u2013 coming to the rescue with a \u201csweet greeting: \u2018Happy birthday, Charice!\u2019\u201d and a \u201cbig smile [across] his handsome face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was sincerity in his tone as he gave me a tight hug. He became family to me at that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said that the actor told the rest of the &#8220;Glee&#8221; cast that it was her birthday, and was floored by their birthday wishes.<br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filipina singer Charice Pempengco penned an emotional tribute to her late \u201cGlee\u201d co-star, Cory Monteith, revealing she never thanked him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"colormag-highlighted-post":false,"colormag-featured-post-medium":false,"colormag-featured-post-small":false,"colormag-featured-image":false,"colormag-default-news":false,"colormag-featured-image-large":false,"colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":false},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Filipina singer Charice Pempengco penned an emotional tribute to her late \u201cGlee\u201d co-star, Cory Monteith, revealing she never thanked him","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":140,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":false,"medium":false,"thumbnail":false},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}