{"id":9349,"date":"2010-06-02T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=9349"},"modified":"2010-06-02T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T20:35:00","slug":"stewart-queen-elizabeth-ii-made-it-sir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/06\/stewart-queen-elizabeth-ii-made-it-sir\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart &#8211; Queen Elizabeth II Made It Sir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year it was announced that <strong>Patrick Stewart <\/strong>was on this year&#8217;s list to receive a knighthood, and the ceremony making him Sir happened today at Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart, knighted for his services to drama, gave credit to an English teacher, <strong>Cecil Dormand<\/strong>, who encouraged Stewart to act. &#8220;Although many people in my life have had great influence on me, without this man none of it would have happened,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Stewartdub060210.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9350\" title=\"Stewartdub060210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Stewartdub060210.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Growing up, some of Stewart&#8217;s heroes were actors who had been knighted. &#8220;But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theatre and Shakespeare, my heroes were <strong>Sir Laurence Olivier<\/strong> [and] <strong>Sir John Gielgud<\/strong>,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The knights of the theatre represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Sir Patrick Stewart!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/StewartKnight2-060210.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9351\" title=\"StewartKnight2-060210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/StewartKnight2-060210.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/StewartMedal060210.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9352\" title=\"StewartMedal060210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/StewartMedal060210.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year it was announced that Patrick Stewart was on this year&#8217;s list to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2442],"tags":[3251,2440],"class_list":["post-9349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tng","tag-knighthood","tag-stewart"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tng\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TNG<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TNG","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9354,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349\/revisions\/9354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}