{"id":624,"date":"2013-04-20T12:57:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T12:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=624"},"modified":"2013-04-20T12:57:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T12:57:35","slug":"thatcher-splits-uk-in-death-as-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=624","title":{"rendered":"Thatcher splits UK in death as in life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_625\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6407.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-625\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-625\" alt=\"No love lost: Thatcher reviled in the north of England also in death\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6407-300x225.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6407-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6407-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6407.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No love lost: Thatcher reviled in the north of England also in death<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Britain\u2019s former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was laid to rest this week in a lavish ceremony in London. During her three terms as Britain\u2019s first female prime minister Lady Thatcher introduced wide-ranging reforms which saw the rise of the City of London as a global financial centre, but also the closure of countless coal mines and much of the country\u2019s manufacturing industry. It has divided the British people\u2019s opinion of her &#8211; even after her death. On the day of her funeral, I went to the former mining town of Chesterfield in the north-east of England, from where I sent this report for Deutsche Welle and Inside Europe:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" data-boourl=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/1342838-thatcher-splits-uk-in-death-as-in-life\/embed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/1342838-thatcher-splits-uk-in-death-as-in-life\">listen to \u2018Thatcher splits UK in death as in life\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>Britain\u2019s former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was laid to rest this week in a lavish ceremony in London. During her three terms as Britain\u2019s first female prime minister Lady Thatcher introduced wide-ranging reforms which saw the rise of the City of London as a global financial centre, but also the closure of countless coal [&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-624","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\/624","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=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}