{"id":300,"date":"2003-06-23T16:24:58","date_gmt":"2003-06-23T20:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/06\/23\/common-wealth\/"},"modified":"2007-02-15T18:41:01","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T22:41:01","slug":"common-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/06\/23\/common-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Common wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a174\"><\/a>  Is anyone else thinking about how the royals really are different from you and me?  We&#8217;ve heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/3011856.stm\">self-styled comedy terrorist<\/a> Aaron Barschak, who breached security at Windsor Castle to gate-crash Prince William&#8217;s 21st birthday party last Saturday.  But did everyone read to the final paragraphs and learn that the royals were having an <em>&#8220;Africa-themed fancy dress party&#8221;<\/em>?  My son sarcastically wondered what the Queen came dressed as.  <a href=\"http:\/\/campus.northpark.edu\/history\/WebChron\/Africa\/ShakaZulu.html\">Shaka Zulu<\/a> perhaps?  Ah, royals  amongst themselves, play-acting memories of Empire and Commonwealth.  Until &#8220;Osama bin Laden&#8221; gate-crashed even their party.  What&#8217;s that aphorism about history repeating itself as comedy the second time around?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is anyone else thinking about how the royals really are different from you and me? We&#8217;ve heard about self-styled comedy terrorist Aaron Barschak, who breached security at Windsor Castle to gate-crash Prince William&#8217;s 21st birthday party last Saturday. But did everyone read to the final paragraphs and learn that the royals were having an &#8220;Africa-themed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}