{"id":28351,"date":"2014-06-02T17:26:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T22:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=28351"},"modified":"2014-06-02T21:22:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T02:22:49","slug":"sexsmith-hits-high-notes-for-convocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/06\/sexsmith-hits-high-notes-for-convocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexsmith hits high notes for convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28352\" title=\"sexsmith-twitter-image\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/sexsmith-twitter-image.jpg\" alt=\"sexsmith-twitter-image\" width=\"439\" height=\"561\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How happy is Ron Sexsmith to be getting an honorary degree Tuesday morning (June 3) during a Brock University convocation in his hometown of St. Catharines?<\/p>\n<p>Pleased enough that the internationally-renowned artist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonSexsmith\/status\/473566334073057281\/photo\/1\">Tweeted<\/a> out a caricature of himself wearing a graduation cap and gown &#8211; and playing the guitar. &#8220;This will be me tomorrow RS,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>When the multiple-Juno-winning singer-songwriter accepts his honorary doctorate in the 10 am graduation ceremony for the Faculty of Humanities, don&#8217;t expect a long speech. Reliable reports say he&#8217;ll respond by doing what he does best &#8211; performing music live on stage.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers can watch Brock&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=28333http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=28333\">convocation ceremonies<\/a> on Tuesday and all week by going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livestream.com\/brockuniversity\">www.livestream.com\/brockuniversity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sexsmith is one of <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=27864\">three VIPs<\/a> to receive honorary doctorate degrees in this spring convocation.<\/p>\n<p>Leo. W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers, will be recognized at 10 am on Thursday June 5, while Sir Hillary Beckles, Principal and Vice-Chancellor at the University of the West Indies, receives his honour at 2 pm on the same day. Both ceremonies are for the Faculty of Social Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How happy is Ron Sexsmith to be getting an honorary degree Tuesday morning (June 3) during a Brock University convocation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28351"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28358,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28351\/revisions\/28358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}