{"id":790,"date":"2007-12-21T11:57:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T11:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/21\/long-lived-the-queen\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T11:57:05","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T11:57:05","slug":"long-lived-the-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/21\/long-lived-the-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Lived the Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, no, she didn&#8217;t die.  My past-tensing of the verb &#8220;to live&#8221; (sorry about the verbing of the noun &#8220;tense&#8221;) is a clever trick.  But today is a big day in British History.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-15fe280fe8e353814975d31f95fe39fc-royal_queen.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-15fe280fe8e353814975d31f95fe39fc-royal_queen.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><!--more-->You see, today is the very first day that Queen Elizabeth of England becomes the oldest person to ever sit on the throne of England.  Today, the Queen is 81 yars and 244 days old, one day more than Queen Victoria on her last day on the big ugly chair.  She is expected to live many more years.The Throne:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-1ca152125871506aa124e4baade38870-throne1.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-1ca152125871506aa124e4baade38870-throne1.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/libdems\/comment\/0,,2230973,00.html\">[source]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, no, she didn&#8217;t die. My past-tensing of the verb &#8220;to live&#8221; (sorry about the verbing of the noun &#8220;tense&#8221;) is a clever trick. But today is a big day in British History.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-cK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}