{"id":2948,"date":"2012-04-21T08:46:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T12:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2012-04-21T08:46:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T12:46:18","slug":"happy-royal-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2948","title":{"rendered":"Happy royal birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, is 86 years young today, in the 60th year of her reign. She is the last surviving head of state to have served in uniform in the Second World War. May she see many more birthdays in good health and spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I am a loyalist royalist (or a royalist loyalist?) Canadian. It is one of those very few things on which I see eye-to-eye with conservatives these days.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2949\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/QEmechanic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2949\" class=\" wp-image-2949  \" title=\"QEmechanic\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/QEmechanic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/QEmechanic.jpg 896w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/QEmechanic-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Princess Elizabeth in the Women\u2019s Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1945.<\/p><\/div>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2948' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, is 86 years young today, in the 60th year of her reign. She is the last surviving head of state to have served in uniform in the Second World War. May she see many more birthdays in good health and spirit. Yes, I am a loyalist royalist (or a royalist <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2948' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-history","category-politics","category-22-id","category-25-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2955,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions\/2955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}