{"id":6111,"date":"2011-06-09T12:13:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T16:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=6111"},"modified":"2011-06-09T12:13:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T16:13:20","slug":"defining-the-dbe-kcmg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/defining-the-dbe-kcmg\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining the DBE &#038; KCMG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, when reading books that are written by the British, sometimes you run into odd little phrases or acronyms&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s two that I have never run into before:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DBE \/ KBE &#8211; Dame [or Knight] Commander of the Order of the British Empire<\/li>\n<li>Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) or Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)[<\/li>\n<li>Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)<\/li>\n<li>Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And of course, the The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. \u00c2\u00a0Which brings with it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross (GCMG)&gt;\/li&gt;<\/li>\n<li>Knight Commander (KCMG) or Dame Commander (DCMG)<\/li>\n<li>Companion (CMG)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hopefully, this will help you if your reading Charles Stross&#8217;s The Atrocity Archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, when reading books that are written by the British, sometimes you run into odd little phrases or acronyms&#8230;. Here&#8217;s two that I have never run into before: DBE \/ KBE &#8211; Dame [or Knight] Commander of the Order of the British Empire Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) or <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/defining-the-dbe-kcmg\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[27],"tags":[284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->