{"id":541,"date":"2015-01-05T07:40:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T07:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=541"},"modified":"2015-01-15T00:26:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T08:26:42","slug":"all-hail-dame-joan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/01\/05\/all-hail-dame-joan-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"All Hail Dame Joan Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen announced her honorees on New Year&#8217;s Day.\u00a0 At long last, <strong>Joan Collins <\/strong>made the cut; she must henceforth be refer to as <strong><em>Dame Joan Collins<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 And this got me thinking &#8211; now that <strong>Sir Elton John <\/strong>and <strong>David Furnish <\/strong>are legally married in the United Kingdom, shouldn&#8217;t David now be referred to as <strong><em>Lady Furnish<\/em><\/strong> (or, to be precise, <strong><em>Lady John<\/em><\/strong>).\u00a0 After all, when someone is a Sir, his wife (if she takes his name) is accorded the courtesy title of Lady.\u00a0 Because the British honours system has not been updated to reflect same-sex marriage, Furnish ends up with nothing.\u00a0 And yet, someone did go to the trouble to write what I find to be a very strange codicil: if the <strong><em>Prince of Wales <\/em><\/strong>(aka a future <strong><em>King of England<\/em><\/strong>) were to marry a man, his spouse would NOT get the title <strong><em>Queen <\/em><\/strong>or <strong><em>Princess<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s start guessing which prince inspired this bit of legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen announced her honorees on New Year&#8217;s Day.\u00a0 At long last, Joan Collins made the cut; she must henceforth be refer to as Dame Joan Collins.\u00a0 And this got me thinking &#8211; now that Sir Elton John and David Furnish are legally married in the United Kingdom, shouldn&#8217;t David now be referred to as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}