{"id":678,"date":"2009-01-01T21:16:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T21:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=678"},"modified":"2009-03-12T21:35:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T21:35:41","slug":"sir-terence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/sir-terence\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Terence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has to be said, he&#8217;s a cool dude.  And now a knight.  Dr <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terry_Pratchett\">Terry Pratchett<\/a>, CBE is now Sir Terence Pratchett, honoured in the New Year&#8217;s honours list.<\/p>\n<p>Also nice to see Courtney Pine getting a CBE.  (My mum was invited on stage by him in 1997 when I first heard his cool riffs at an outdoor concert in Bangkok- he jammed on 2 saxes at once and did a duet with a scratchin&#8217; DJ!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/7805143.stm\">Pratchett leads showbiz honours<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has to be said, he&#8217;s a cool dude. And now a knight. Dr Terry Pratchett, CBE is now Sir Terence Pratchett, honoured in the New Year&#8217;s honours list. Also nice to see Courtney Pine getting a CBE. (My mum was invited on stage by him in 1997 when I first heard his cool riffs &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/sir-terence\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sir Terence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediaandgatherings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-aW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}