{"id":31599,"date":"2025-03-06T21:02:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T21:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-rolling-stones-keith-richards-honored-with-the-connecticut-governors-award-of-excellence\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T21:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T21:02:29","slug":"the-rolling-stones-keith-richards-honored-with-the-connecticut-governors-award-of-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-rolling-stones-keith-richards-honored-with-the-connecticut-governors-award-of-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rolling Stones\u2019 Keith Richards honored with the Connecticut Governor\u2019s Award of Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-03-06\/M_KeithRichardsConnecticutHonor_030625.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Courtesy: The Westport Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The Rolling Stones<\/strong> guitarist <strong>Keith Richards<\/strong> was honored Wednesday as the first recipient of the Connecticut Governor\u2019s Award of Excellence; he was recognized for his \u201cdeep commitment to supporting the local community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During a ceremony held at The Westport Library, Connecticut Gov.\u00a0<strong>Ned Lamont<\/strong>\u00a0called Richards &#8220;an amazing member of our community,&#8221; adding, &#8220;We\u2019re so proud that he\u2019s here and I\u2019m so proud of the opportunity to give him this award of excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richards, a Connecticut resident since 1985, thanked the state for recognizing him with the honor, which came with a custom-made medallion and key to the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been here for 40 years and it\u2019s been a great place for me,\u201d Richards shared. \u201cI brought the kids up here &#8230; I said I have to get the kids out of New York City so they could get some fresh air to breathe. So, we moved up here, and ever since we\u2019ve had a great life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI\u2019m incredibly happy about everything, especially things like this, because you don\u2019t get them every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keith also mentioned the\u00a0Westport Library, noting, \u201cThis is a great building, a wonderful library, which even I didn\u2019t know the full extent of.\u201d He then talked about the importance of books: \u201cIt\u2019s very important that we keep our books unburnt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Connecticut Governor\u2019s Award of Excellence is described as \u201ca prestigious new honor celebrating Connecticut residents who epitomize the state\u2019s core values of creativity, resourcefulness, passion, dynamism, and generosity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy: The Westport Library The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was honored Wednesday as the first recipient of the Connecticut Governor\u2019s Award of Excellence; he was recognized for his \u201cdeep commitment to supporting the local community.&#8221; During a ceremony held at The Westport Library, Connecticut Gov.\u00a0Ned Lamont\u00a0called Richards &#8220;an amazing<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-rolling-stones-keith-richards-honored-with-the-connecticut-governors-award-of-excellence\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}