{"id":187320,"date":"2013-04-08T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/08\/margaret-thatcher-dead-at-87\/"},"modified":"2013-04-08T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T23:33:00","slug":"margaret-thatcher-dead-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/08\/margaret-thatcher-dead-at-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Thatcher, Dead at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/09\/world\/europe\/former-prime-minister-margaret-thatcher-of-britain-has-died.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\">She was 87<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is an argument that one should not speak ill of the dead, but Margaret Thatcher was a public figure, and her supporters are using this as an opportunity to shape her legacy, so I feel that speaking the truth is essential at this juncture in any public forum except for her funeral or wake.<\/p>\n<p>In my case, I will start with a list of positive things about her:<br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span 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white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">.<\/span><br \/>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was 87. There is an argument that one should not speak ill of the dead, but Margaret Thatcher was a public figure, and her supporters are using this as an opportunity to shape her legacy, so I feel that speaking the truth is essential at this juncture in any public forum except for her &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,969,994,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-evil","category-obituaries","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187320"}],"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=187320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}