{"id":1632,"date":"2008-12-31T20:29:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T19:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2008\/12\/31\/local-lady-makes-good\/"},"modified":"2008-12-31T20:29:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T19:29:39","slug":"local-lady-makes-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1632","title":{"rendered":"Local lady makes good!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 131px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/queen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" title=\"Queen honours local heroes\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/queen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cambridge Evening News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Congratulations to Boni for being <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/cambridgeshire\/7805364.stm\">recognised by the Queen<\/a> and The Establishment,<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Former News journalist Boni Sones, 54, of Fair Street, Cambridge,<br \/>\nis made an OBE for services to broadcasting and public relations. <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Ms Sones, who helped set up BBC News 24, said: &#8220;I am absolutely thrilled<br \/>\nand tearful. There haven&#8217;t been many journalists who have been honoured by the<br \/>\nQueen. I am a hard-bitten journalist but this is very emotional.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"scribefire-powered\">Powered by ScribeFire.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Boni for being recognised by the Queen and The Establishment, Former News journalist Boni Sones, 54, of Fair Street, Cambridge, is made an OBE for services to broadcasting and public relations. Ms Sones, who helped set up BBC News 24, said: &#8220;I am absolutely thrilled and tearful. There haven&#8217;t been many journalists who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21],"tags":[102,166,239,292],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambridge","category-politics","tag-cambridge","tag-establishment","tag-journalist","tag-order-of-the-british-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}