{"id":3691,"date":"2014-05-07T16:44:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T20:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2014-05-07T16:44:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T20:14:27","slug":"kelly-russell-receives-the-order-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/2014\/05\/07\/kelly-russell-receives-the-order-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Russell receives the Order of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Kelly Russell for being awarded the Order of Canada today. Kelly has made an immense contribution to the music and culture of Newfoundland.<\/p>\n<p>He was an early collector of Newfoundland folk music &amp; collaborator with seminal fiddlers Emile Benoit &amp; Rufus Guinchard. 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Kelly has made an immense contribution to the music and culture of Newfoundland. He was an early collector of Newfoundland folk music &amp; collaborator with seminal fiddlers Emile Benoit &amp; Rufus Guinchard. He is a musicologist, founder of Pigeon Inlet record label, music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}