{"id":165314,"date":"2022-05-19T15:45:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T15:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=165314"},"modified":"2022-05-19T15:45:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T15:45:21","slug":"taylor-swift-now-a-doctor-of-fine-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=165314","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Now a Doctor of Fine Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Amirah Yasmin<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, 19 May 2022: Grammy Award winner for 11 times, Taylor Swift, received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from New York University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to thank NYU for making me, technically, on paper at least, a doctor,&#8221; Swift said during her commencement address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taylor Swift expressed her gratitude through her Instagram account @taylorswift and @taylornation for the awarded Doctorate. The singer did not pursue her tertiary education after high school due to her musical career taking off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The singer-songwriter took the opportunity in the NYU Class of 2022 to thank her family for the sacrifices made to help her grow from singing in coffeehouses to sold-out stadiums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from the doctorate, NYU also launched a Taylor Swift course taught by Rolling Stone&#8217;s Brittany Spanos which focuses on the &#8220;22&#8221; singer-songwriter&#8217;s evolution in the creative music industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taylor Alison Swift was elated to be awarded the Honorary Doctorate and wishes the rest of the graduates the best in life.***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Amirah Yasmin KUALA LUMPUR, 19 May 2022: Grammy Award winner for 11 times, Taylor Swift, received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from New&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":165317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,11,8,3,20],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,156,466],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Untitled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165314"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165325,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165314\/revisions\/165325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/165317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}