{"id":656745,"date":"2026-06-25T02:25:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656745\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T02:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:25:26","slug":"tennis-legend-billie-jean-king-receives-honorary-oxford-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656745\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis legend Billie Jean King receives honorary Oxford degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tennis legend Billie Jean King and former Prime Minister of New Zealand Dame Jacinda Ardern have received honorary degrees from the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">King and Ardern were two of nine recipients who received the prestigious honour during a sweltering Encaenia ceremony at the Sheldonian Theatre on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As part of the centuries-old service, a procession made up of university dignitaries and degree recipients walk through the city &#8211; usually in full academic dress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">King said it was an &#8220;honour and a privilege&#8221; to receive this degree during the &#8220;historic celebration&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Education, at any age, is a powerful tool and we must always keep learning and learning how to learn,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis legend Billie Jean King and former Prime Minister of New Zealand Dame Jacinda Ardern have received honorary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-656745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}