{"id":2257,"date":"2022-12-10T19:02:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T19:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2022-12-10T19:02:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T19:02:47","slug":"the-strange-royalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/10\/the-strange-royalty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Royalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is much talk about the British royal family but it is the same as all the others. The shoe-horning of people into unnatural positions and deifying them for centuries does not breed any normality. Being bowed to from your first days\u00a0 does not give you a sense of commonality. It isn&#8217;t designed to. But keeping the myth going depends upon artifice and lies.<\/p>\n<p>No one will admit Diana&#8217;s sons are half-brothers, but they both know. And the palaces of the world are nationalist and racist &#8211; they have to be. Their purpose is to raise a one family above all others. But the worst part of the artifice is the servants and bureaucrats who surround the families. The inverted snobbery, the sense of self-importance and the determination to lie until the end that these families are imperfect but noble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is much talk about the British royal family but it is the same as all the others. The shoe-horning of people into unnatural positions and deifying them for centuries does not breed any normality. Being bowed to from your first days\u00a0 does not give you a sense of commonality. It isn&#8217;t designed to. But&#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":[621],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-royalty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","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=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}