{"id":329,"date":"2016-02-09T10:40:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T14:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/?p=329"},"modified":"2016-02-09T10:40:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T14:40:04","slug":"good-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/good-knights\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD KNIGHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Knights<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_330\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-330\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Prince-Charles-Knighting-Van-Morrison-at-Buckingham-Palace-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"credit to ap wire\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Prince-Charles-Knighting-Van-Morrison-at-Buckingham-Palace-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Prince-Charles-Knighting-Van-Morrison-at-Buckingham-Palace.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit to ap wire<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>With the Knighting of Van Morrison, I became curious as to other Rock stars who  have had a similar honor.  51 years ago the Beatles became the first rock stars to receive royal honors and then six more Rockers  earned the title of Sir.  They are:  Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Mick Jagger, Sir Cliff Richard, Sir Tom Jones, Sir Elton John and then Sir George Ivan Morrison.  Receiving the title of Knight is the highest honor, however, there are lesser honors and this year about 1000 received this lesser honor.<br \/>\nAmong the lesser honors are:  Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Dave Gilmour, Brian May (and not the rest of Queen), Mark Knopfler, Rod Stewart, and Gordon \u201cSting \u201c Summer, just to name some.  It should be noted that that David Bowie actually declined honors.<br \/>\nWomen who have been given honors are called Dames which is the highest form of title for British females.  There are not many women in rock and among them are:  Joan Armatrading, Kate Bush,  Annie Lennex and Adele have been given lesser honors than a Dame-ship.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Knights With the Knighting of Van Morrison, I became curious as to other Rock stars who have had a similar honor. 51 years ago the Beatles became the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}