{"id":1746,"date":"2022-09-09T06:19:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T05:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2022-09-09T07:11:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T06:11:40","slug":"on-the-death-of-queen-elizabeth-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/on-the-death-of-queen-elizabeth-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"On the death of Queen Elizabeth II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2492.jpg.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1747\" src=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2492.jpg-279x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2492.jpg-279x300.webp 279w, http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2492.jpg-953x1024.webp 953w, http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2492.jpg-768x825.webp 768w, http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2492.jpg-1200x1289.webp 1200w, http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2492.jpg.webp 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 85vw, 279px\" \/><\/a>I confess, reading all the news this morning, that I have had a quiet little cry. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She has been there all my life. My own mother was only 19 when Elizabeth ascended the throne, 11 years before I was born\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It feels quite strange that I am sat in a hotel room in Limerick, chairing a conference in Tokyo, in the small hours of the morning, reading <a title=\"Excellent article by Johnathan Freedland\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/sep\/08\/the-queens-death-will-shake-this-country-deeply-she-was-a-steady-centre-amid-constant-flux\">The Guardian<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royal.uk\">royal.uk<\/a> websites, shedding a few tears\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I shall not mourn having left the UK. Life in Ireland has proven to be wonderful &#8211; and moving probably the best thing I ever did. But something that had somehow continued to make the UK home has now gone, and leaves with the country in turmoil and seemingly irrevocable decline \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I confess, reading all the news this morning, that I have had a quiet little cry. She has been there all my life. My own mother was only 19 when Elizabeth ascended the throne, 11 years before I was born\u2026. It feels quite strange that I am sat in a hotel room in Limerick, chairing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/on-the-death-of-queen-elizabeth-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the death of Queen Elizabeth II&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}