{"id":2058,"date":"2007-12-25T08:30:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T13:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/25\/merry-christmas-from-me-and-the-queen\/"},"modified":"2007-12-25T08:30:47","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T13:30:47","slug":"merry-christmas-from-me-and-the-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/25\/merry-christmas-from-me-and-the-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas from me and the Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to confess that I&#8217;ve never been much for the whole Queen thing (the monarch, not the rock band) and never paid much attention to Her Majesty&#8217;s regular Christmas morning addresses, but I think it&#8217;s kind of cool that the Royal Family has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/profile?user=TheRoyalChannel\">YouTube channel<\/a> now &#8212; and that it&#8217;s the 50th anniversary of the first televised address by the Queen. So I thought I would link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mBRP-o6Q85s\">the 1957 version<\/a>, in which Her Majesty talks about this newfangled thing called the television, and how it enables people to connect over long distances (there&#8217;s a transcript <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royal.gov.uk\/output\/Page4609.asp\">here<\/a>). Just one thing about the YouTube videos though, Liz: not letting people embed them is kind of rude. Just FYI.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mBRP-o6Q85s\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"centered\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/queen.jpg?w=525\" alt='queen.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to confess that I&#8217;ve never been much for the whole Queen thing (the monarch, not the rock band) and never paid much attention to Her Majesty&#8217;s regular Christmas morning addresses, but I think it&#8217;s kind of cool that the Royal Family has a YouTube channel now &#8212; and that it&#8217;s the 50th anniversary &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/25\/merry-christmas-from-me-and-the-queen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Merry Christmas from me and the Queen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}