{"id":5171,"date":"2014-01-23T10:25:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T14:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=5171"},"modified":"2014-01-23T10:26:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T14:26:16","slug":"roger-waters-to-be-made-honorary-citizen-of-anzio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2014\/01\/roger-waters-to-be-made-honorary-citizen-of-anzio\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Waters to be made honorary citizen of Anzio"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>Officials of the Italian city of Anzio will make Pink Floyd&#8217;s <strong>Roger Waters<\/strong> an honorary citizen.The city will hold a ceremony Feb. 18, 70 years to the day Waters&#8217; father, <strong>Eric Fletcher Waters<\/strong>, died at the Battle of Anzio.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to honoring Roger, officials will erect a monument to his father, inscribed with the lyrics to Roger&#8217;s &#8220;Two Suns in the Sunset&#8221; from Pink Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;The Final Cut&#8221; (1983).<\/p>\n<p>Waters received details of his father&#8217;s death only last autumn, when WWII vet <strong>Harry Shindler<\/strong> discovered a War Diary describing the day&#8217;s events. (See &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2013\/10\/new-documents-reveal-final-day-of-roger-waters-father\/\">New documents reveal final day of Roger Water\u2019s father<\/a>&#8220;)<del><\/del><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials of the Italian city of Anzio will make Pink Floyd&#8217;s Roger Waters an honorary citizen.The city will hold a ceremony Feb. 18, 70 years to the day Waters&#8217; father, Eric Fletcher Waters, died at the Battle of Anzio. In addition to honoring Roger, officials will erect a monument to his father, inscribed with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personnel","category-roger-waters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5173,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171\/revisions\/5173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}