{"id":75032,"date":"2022-01-18T07:03:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T07:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=75032"},"modified":"2022-09-15T13:47:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T08:17:34","slug":"former-west-indies-cricketer-clive-lloyd-receives-knighthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/former-west-indies-cricketer-clive-lloyd-receives-knighthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Former West Indies Cricketer Clive Lloyd Receives Knighthood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cricketing great and former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd was given the knighthood for his service&nbsp;towards the game of cricket.&nbsp;Sir Clive was joined in the ceremony by England white-ball Captain Eoin Morgan, who was honoured with a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CBE is the highest-ranking Order of the British Empire award, followed by OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) and then MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the award:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A knighthood is a title that is given to a man by a British king or queen for his achievements or his service to his country. A man who has been given a knighthood can put \u2018Sir\u2019 in front of his name instead of \u2018 Mr\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricketing great and former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd was given the knighthood for his service&nbsp;towards the game of cricket.&nbsp;Sir Clive was joined in the ceremony by England white-ball Captain Eoin Morgan, who was honoured with a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). The CBE is the highest-ranking Order of the British [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":75036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2794],"tags":[4925,92,2921,2337],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-75032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-january-2022","tag-awards-honours-current-affairs","tag-awards-prizes-current-affairs","tag-clive-lloyd","tag-west-indies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75039,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75032\/revisions\/75039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75032"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=75032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}