{"id":9150,"date":"2018-12-29T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T13:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=9150"},"modified":"2018-12-29T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T13:55:10","slug":"nick-mason-awarded-cbe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2018\/12\/nick-mason-awarded-cbe\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Mason awarded CBE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Floyd drummer and co-founder <strong>Nicholas Berkeley Mason<\/strong> \u2014 Nick, to you and me \u2014 has been included in Queen Elizabeth&#8217;s New Year Honors\u00a0list to receive a CBE for services to music.<\/p>\n<p>Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) is one click below knighthood. Nick and others awarded the citation have no title \u2014 so don&#8217;t call him Sir Nick \u2014 but can choose to put the letters after their names.<\/p>\n<p>The Honors List, published today, recognizes outstanding achievements of people across the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>Nick is the second member of the five Floyds to receive the honor. <strong>David Gilmour<\/strong> received a CBE in 2003 for his charity work (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/archive\/2003\/03-jun-20-cbe.htm\">&#8220;David Gilmour receives CBE citation,&#8221;<\/a> June 20, 2003). Though his guitar work should have been enough. Just sayin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Nick!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Floyd drummer and co-founder Nicholas Berkeley Mason \u2014 Nick, to you and me \u2014 has been included in Queen Elizabeth&#8217;s New Year Honors\u00a0list to receive a CBE for services to music. Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) is one click below knighthood. Nick and others awarded the citation have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nick-mason","category-personnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150","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=9150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9152,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150\/revisions\/9152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}