{"id":42480,"date":"2022-09-08T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T20:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=42480"},"modified":"2022-09-17T11:42:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T16:42:56","slug":"queen-elizabeth-ii-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/queen-elizabeth-ii-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth II Has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Post 208 of 263)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised by how upset I was by the news that Canada&#8217;s head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, died peacefully today at her beloved Balmoral Castle. It is not necessarily her I mourn, but what her death signifies, the true end of a world and way of life that has been in death throes for nearly two decades now.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I would share my memory of the Queen. June 27th, 1998, I was in Edinburgh, Scotland, and about to climb Arthur&#8217;s Seat when I turned back to look at the commotion at Holyrood Palace only to see a tiny familiar person dressed in bright colours climb into a car! I changed my plans and ended up getting pretty lost following the royal procession.<\/p>\n<p>(I can&#8217;t believe my journal doesn&#8217;t say what colour she was wearing. I was such a crappy journaller back then!)<\/p>\n<p>Here is the Queen at Uxmal, Yucat\u00e1n, in 1975 (I could not find a photo credit):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/51408278_10156396369345735_2672911165100654592_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42482\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/51408278_10156396369345735_2672911165100654592_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"931\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/51408278_10156396369345735_2672911165100654592_n.jpg 750w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/51408278_10156396369345735_2672911165100654592_n-242x300.jpg 242w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/51408278_10156396369345735_2672911165100654592_n-619x768.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Post 208 of 263) I&#8217;m surprised by how upset I was by the news that Canada&#8217;s head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, died peacefully today at her beloved Balmoral Castle. It is not necessarily her I mourn, but what her death signifies, the true end of a world and way of life that has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[895],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42514,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42480\/revisions\/42514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}