{"id":4870,"date":"2010-04-30T06:53:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T10:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4870"},"modified":"2010-04-30T06:53:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T10:53:08","slug":"schumacher-fernandes-awarded-frances-legion-dhonneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-fernandes-awarded-frances-legion-dhonneur\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher, Fernandes, awarded France&#8217;s Legion d&#8217;honneur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday evening at Paris&#8217; Hotel Matignon, Michael Schumacher accepted the Legion d&#8217;honneur prize from French prime minister Francois Fillon.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Among the guests at the ceremony were the seven time world champion&#8217;s friend, former Ferrari boss and current FIA president Jean Todt, as well as ex-F1 driver Jean Alesi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To find a relevant comparison (to Schumacher), one must go back to the origins of formula one and the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio, your only rival,&#8221; Fillon is quoted by French media as having said to the 41-year-old German.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Lotus team principal and AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes received the same French decoration for his contributions to aviation.<\/p>\n<p>Established by Napoleon in 1802, the Officier of the Legion d&#8217;honneur is the highest honour the government of France can award to a non-French citizen.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday evening at Paris&#8217; Hotel Matignon, Michael Schumacher accepted the Legion d&#8217;honneur prize from French prime minister Francois Fillon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5300,5261,5340,1463,284,989,1464,92,62],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4871,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions\/4871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}