{"id":1847,"date":"2017-06-16T21:18:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T21:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2017-06-16T21:18:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T21:18:10","slug":"on-my-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/2017\/06\/16\/on-my-honour\/","title":{"rendered":"On my honour!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About six weeks ago I got a letter which left me speechless. It told me that it had been approved to be be appointed a Member of the British Empire (MBE) for my services to audiobooks and charity. Six weeks later I am still reeling! But at least now I can talk about it as tomorrow the Queen&#8217;s Birthday Honours List is published. When I started recording audiobooks it was rather looked down upon by many. &#8220;You record books for the blind,&#8221; they&#8217;d say in a rather dispareging way. Now of course audiobooks are the fastest growing sector in the world of publishing. I&#8217;m heading for 800 audiobooks &#8211; I have been at it a long time and I have seen many changes. I proudly accept this honour on behalf of myself but also for the industry as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About six weeks ago I got a letter which left me speechless. It told me that it had been approved to be be appointed a Member of the British Empire (MBE) for my services to audiobooks and charity. Six weeks later I am still reeling! But at least now I can talk about it as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}