{"id":557,"date":"2008-07-14T09:59:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T14:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2008-07-13T22:12:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T03:12:45","slug":"why-bushs-blunders-are-derailing-plans-for-thatchers-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Why Bush&#8217;s Blunders are Derailing Plans for Thatcher&#8217;s Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]Britain&#8217;s <em>Daily Mail<\/em> reports that plans are already under way for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1034634\/Lady-Thatcher-honoured-State-funeral-Palace-fears-troops-line-streets-London.html\">Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s funeral<\/a> &#8211; although she is in good health and not expected to kick off any time soon.\u00a0 The article explains that long-term planning is necessary for any potential event that involves the Queen. This is the big news of the piece &#8211; that Lady Thatcher will be given the first State funeral for a non-royal since Winston Churchill, and only the sixth State funeral for a non-royal since 1800.<\/p>\n<p>There is one snag in the current plans as traditionally soldiers line the route along which the coffin will travel, but:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>there are insufficient troops available to line the route because the Armed Forces are so overstretched in Afghanistan and Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]Britain&#8217;s Daily Mail reports that plans are already under way for Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s funeral &#8211; although she is in good health and not expected to kick off any time soon.\u00a0 The article explains that long-term planning is necessary for any potential event that involves the Queen. This is the big news of the piece &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[480,28],"tags":[481],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-britain","category-iraq","tag-margaret-thatcher"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-8Z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}