{"id":297,"date":"2013-04-08T13:33:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T13:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=297"},"modified":"2013-11-24T03:41:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T03:41:19","slug":"farewell-maggie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/08\/farewell-maggie\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Maggie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News has just come in that The Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister has finally shuffled off this mortal coil at the grand old age of 87. I&#8217;ll leave it to others to comment on whether her time at the top was a complete disaster or not.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I just have this lingering image of the old girl stamping her foot outside the <em>Pearly Gates<\/em>, arguing most forcefully with St Peter that she is only prepared to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, providing God promises to do what he&#8217;s told.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile a choir of angels on the other side of the gates are chanting &#8220;<em>Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Out! Out! Out!<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2013\/apr\/08\/margaret-thatcher-dies-aged-87\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2013\/apr\/08\/margaret-thatcher-dies-aged-87<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Honk! Honk! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News has just come in that The Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister has finally shuffled off this mortal coil at the grand old age of 87. I&#8217;ll leave it to others to comment on whether her time at the top was a complete disaster or not. I just have this lingering image of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/08\/farewell-maggie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Farewell Maggie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}