{"id":843,"date":"2012-12-15T12:40:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T12:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=843"},"modified":"2013-08-31T13:35:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T13:35:34","slug":"a-shropshire-republican-writes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"A Shropshire republican writes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an exiled <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Salopian\">Salopian<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shropshirestar.com\/\">Shropshire Star <\/a>forms part of my regular online reading.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine my surprise earlier when I discovered that there is a spark of republicanism in my home town of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Market_Drayton\">Market Drayton<\/a>, as shown by the following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shropshirestar.com\/news\/letters\/2012\/12\/13\/letter-inequality-still-reigns-over-royal-family\/\">letter from Draytonian Andrew Lovatt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While thousands of the Queen\u2019s subjects are born into poverty, her third great-grandchild will be born into a position of high status and comfort.<\/p>\n<p>The royal inequality gap is in direct contradiction to everything that 21st century Britain claims to stand for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keep up the good work, Andrew! You probably feel quite lonely. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an exiled Salopian, the Shropshire Star forms part of my regular online reading. Imagine my surprise earlier when I discovered that there is a spark of republicanism in my home town of Market Drayton, as shown by the following letter from Draytonian Andrew Lovatt. While thousands of the Queen\u2019s subjects are born into poverty, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,15],"tags":[33,20],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}