{"id":4894,"date":"2024-12-02T16:11:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T16:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=4894"},"modified":"2024-12-02T16:23:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T16:23:21","slug":"john-philip-sousa-honored-december-2-1901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2024\/12\/02\/john-philip-sousa-honored-december-2-1901\/","title":{"rendered":"John Philip Sousa Honored December 2, 1901"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4895\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/12\/Sousa-on-December-2-1901-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/12\/Sousa-on-December-2-1901-small.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/12\/Sousa-on-December-2-1901-small-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/12\/Sousa-on-December-2-1901-small-992x1024.jpg 992w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/12\/Sousa-on-December-2-1901-small-768x793.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/12\/Sousa-on-December-2-1901-small-1487x1536.jpg 1487w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On this day in 1901 John Philip Sousa and his band performed a private concert for Queen Alexandria&#8217;s birthday and then King Edward VII awarded the March King with the Royal Victorian Medal.\u00a0 This historical tidbit highlights one of Sousa&#8217;s proudest moments while on tour.\u00a0 This news clipping comes from the Center&#8217;s Sousa press books that are part of the Paul E. Bierley Papers which document Sousa&#8217;s life and career.\u00a0 For more information about these press books call 217-333-4577.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1901 John Philip Sousa and his band performed a private concert for Queen Alexandria&#8217;s birthday and then King Edward VII awarded the March King with the Royal Victorian Medal.\u00a0 This historical tidbit highlights one of Sousa&#8217;s proudest moments while on tour.\u00a0 This news clipping comes from the Center&#8217;s Sousa press books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4898,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894\/revisions\/4898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}