{"id":450,"date":"2012-01-22T20:42:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T20:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=450"},"modified":"2012-01-22T20:42:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T20:42:36","slug":"the-iron-lady-who-still-splits-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"The Iron Lady who still splits the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_453\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_3380-e1327264898697.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-453\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-453\" title=\"The Iron Lady\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_3380-e1327264898697-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_3380-e1327264898697-300x237.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_3380-e1327264898697-1024x810.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_3380-e1327264898697.jpg 1146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">She&#39;s back: Thatcher in Streep&#39;s clothing rises the temperature yet again<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hollywood grandee Meryl Streep was awarded a Golden Globe lats week for her portrayal of former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher, in the film \u201cThe Iron Lady\u201d. But far from Hollywood, in the former mining communities of England\u2019s north-east, people have not been rolling out the red carpet. There feelings are still very raw towards Thatcher, who closed most of Britain\u2019s mines and who many blame for ruining their way of life and the very future of their society. I went to the former mining town of Chesterfield to talk to some of those who lived through the Thatcher years, and recorded this report for World Link on Deutsche Welle Radio:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" data-boourl=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/634437-the-iron-lady-still-splits-the-uk\/embed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/634437-the-iron-lady-still-splits-the-uk\">listen to \u2018The Iron Lady still splits the UK\u2019 on Audioboo<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"http:\/\/d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood grandee Meryl Streep was awarded a Golden Globe lats week for her portrayal of former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher, in the film \u201cThe Iron Lady\u201d. But far from Hollywood, in the former mining communities of England\u2019s north-east, people have not been rolling out the red carpet. There feelings are still very raw towards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}