{"id":179576,"date":"2017-12-27T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/27\/man-this-is-lame\/"},"modified":"2017-12-27T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T01:54:00","slug":"man-this-is-lame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/27\/man-this-is-lame\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, This is Lame"},"content":{"rendered":"
The folks at Number 10 Downing Street are are freaking out at the possibility that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will invite Barack Obama to their wedding<\/a>: <\/div>\n

As if wedding planning isn\u2019t hard enough. <\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s Prince Harry and his American fianc\u00e9e, the actress Meghan Markle, have told aides they want former U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, whom the young couple has grown close to, invited to their May 19 wedding<\/a>. <\/p>\n

But the government of Prime Minister Theresa May reportedly senses a diplomatic scandal in the making, the British newspaper the Sun reported, and would prefer the former U.S. first couple not make a high-profile appearance on British soil before current president Donald Trump \u2014 himself presumed absent from the guest list \u2014 comes for an official visit. <\/p>\n

There are concerns among senior Foreign Office and 10 Downing St. officials that another perceived national snub will make it impossible for Theresa May to meaningfully engage with Trump, the paper reported in what it called a Christmas Day exclusive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A senior government source reportedly told the Sun: \u201cHarry has made it clear he wants the Obamas at the wedding, so it\u2019s causing a lot of nervousness. Trump could react very badly if the Obamas get to a royal wedding before he has had a chance to meet [Queen Elizabeth],\u201d the paper reported.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The reason that Donald Trump hasn’t met the Queen is because a state visit would be a complete clusterf%$#, and inevitable the protests, and the inevitable over-reaction by the British constabulary, would be an embarrassment for all involved.<\/p>\n

This sort of spectacle would almost certainly be a political disaster for the Tories as well.<\/p>\n

This perfect storm of lame amuses me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The folks at Number 10 Downing Street are are freaking out at the possibility that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will invite Barack Obama to their wedding: As if wedding planning isn\u2019t hard enough. Britain\u2019s Prince Harry and his American fianc\u00e9e, the actress Meghan Markle, have told aides they want former U.S. President Barack Obama …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[371,394,603,486,403],"class_list":["post-179576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-europe","tag-foreign-relations","tag-manners","tag-schadenfreude","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}