{"id":28623,"date":"2020-09-25T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T15:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.com\/?p=28623"},"modified":"2020-09-25T15:44:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T15:44:12","slug":"victoria-is-given-honorary-greek-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/victoria-is-given-honorary-greek-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria is given Honorary Greek Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-28529\" src=\"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hislop_web-thumb-large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hislop_web-thumb-large.jpg 412w, https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hislop_web-thumb-large-355x500.jpg 355w, https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hislop_web-thumb-large-321x453.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/>The\u00a0 author of bestsellers including \u201cThe Island\u201d and \u201cThose Who Are Loved,\u201d may officially consider herself Greek.<\/p>\n<p>Greece\u2019s President Katerini Sakellaropoulou has signed an honorary naturalization order allowing the 61-year-old novelist to claim Greek citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Hislop, who has a holiday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/251577\/article\/ekathimerini\/life\/i-wish-the-uk-had-a-tsiodras-british-author-victoria-hislop-tells-kathimerini\">house in Crete<\/a>\u00a0where she spends several months a year, was granted Greek citizenship for promoting modern Greek history and culture, including the history of the tiny island of Spinalonga, off the coast of Crete, the last leprosy colony in Europe.\u00a0Spinalonga served as the setting for her 2005 historical novel \u201cThe Island.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decree was published in the Greek government gazette.<\/p>\n<p>Under Greek law, honorary naturalization may be granted to people \u201cwho have provided exceptional services to the country or whose naturalization serves the public interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0 author of bestsellers including \u201cThe Island\u201d and \u201cThose Who Are Loved,\u201d may officially consider herself Greek. Greece\u2019s President Katerini Sakellaropoulou has signed an honorary naturalization order allowing the 61-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[623,446],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28624,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28623\/revisions\/28624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}