{"id":349,"date":"2007-05-01T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=349"},"modified":"2007-05-01T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T11:37:00","slug":"not-a-day-to-celebrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/not-a-day-to-celebrate\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a day to celebrate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/orangesweetie\/137659248\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/55\/137659248_dcd82bc92f_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/orangesweetie\/137659248\/\">Union Jack<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/orangesweetie\/\">Orange Sweets<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>Where are the flags?  Why is today not a bank holiday in Great Britain?  Today is the 300th anniversary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Acts_of_Union_1707\">Act of Union<\/a> between England (with Wales) and Scotland.  If it&#8217;s such a great thing as the unionist parties proclaim, surely they should be out there celebrating it.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, all is quiet.  There&#8217;s nothing at all in the online edition of T<a href=\"http:\/\/thescotsman.scotsman.com\/\">he Scotsman<\/a>, and only a small article or two in slightly less unionist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theherald.co.uk\/\">The Herald<\/a>.  Most of the coverage is found in the English newspapers (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/this_britain\/article2489971.ece\">this piece<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t the fact that unionists think the best way to preserve the union is to keep quiet about it the best proof that the two countries are heading towards a peaceful divorce?<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Jack Originally uploaded by Orange Sweets. Where are the flags? Why is today not a bank holiday in Great Britain? Today is the 300th anniversary of the Act of Union between England (with Wales) and Scotland. If it&#8217;s such a great thing as the unionist parties proclaim, surely they should be out there celebrating it. Instead, all is quiet. There&#8217;s nothing at all in the online edition of The Scotsman, and only a small article or two in slightly less unionist The Herald. Most of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,130,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-politics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}