{"id":2168,"date":"2022-11-01T07:57:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T07:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2022-11-01T07:57:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T07:57:57","slug":"how-they-are-laughing-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/01\/how-they-are-laughing-now\/","title":{"rendered":"How They Are Laughing Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can hear the laughter on the Indian Sub-Continent of those who follow the news and know what is going on in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>I smiled myself.<\/p>\n<p>We have the first Prime Minister of Indian descent with an Indian national wife and wife&#8217;s family. After the hundreds of years of wars with the UK and the butchery of Independence this in itself is not just a reversal of empire but a significant cause for laughter. Because this PM of Indian descent just told the King of England where he could and could not go.<\/p>\n<p>No finer demonstration of the death of Empire or greater irony of history could have been designed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can hear the laughter on the Indian Sub-Continent of those who follow the news and know what is going on in the UK. I smiled myself. We have the first Prime Minister of Indian descent with an Indian national wife and wife&#8217;s family. After the hundreds of years of wars with the UK and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[400,605],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-rishi-sunak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}