{"id":2761,"date":"2013-04-08T10:08:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T10:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2025-09-28T18:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:41:13","slug":"margaret-thatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2761","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Thatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>UPDATE<\/strong><\/span>: Brigid is watching the BBC coverage.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A popular figure in Farandaville. I was living in Jamaica when she was first elected Prime Minister. I remember the consternation of my dedicated <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">communist socialist<\/span> Labor Party member friend Mick whose flat was next to mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/1075292\/margaret-thatcher-dies-after-stroke\" target=\"_self\">Prime Minister David Cameron led tributes saying: &#8220;Today is a truly sad day for our country. We&#8217;ve lost a great prime minister, a great leader, a great Briton. As our first woman prime minister, Margaret Thatcher succeeded against all the odds, and the real thing about Margaret Thatcher is that she didn&#8217;t just lead our country, she saved our country, and I believe she&#8217;ll go down as the greatest British peacetime prime minister.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"306\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e2017d42a0c5bc970c-300wi.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11948\" title=\"Margaret_Thatcher\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e2017d42a0c5bc970c-300wi.png 220w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e2017d42a0c5bc970c-300wi-216x300.png 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Brigid is watching the BBC coverage. A popular figure in Farandaville. I was living in Jamaica when she was first elected Prime Minister. I remember the consternation of my dedicated communist socialist Labor Party member friend Mick whose flat was next to mine. Prime Minister David Cameron led tributes saying: &#8220;Today is a truly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11949,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions\/11949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}