{"id":3635,"date":"2013-04-08T18:58:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T16:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2013-04-08T18:58:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T16:58:46","slug":"margaret-thatcher-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2013\/04\/margaret-thatcher-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Thatcher Passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret\u00c2\u00a0Thatcher\u00c2\u00a0 the famous Iron Lady of 1980&#8217;s Britain and only female Prime\u00c2\u00a0Minister\u00c2\u00a0in English History\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/1075292\/margaret-thatcher-dies-after-stroke\">has passed away in London from an apparent stroke<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0She will be\u00c2\u00a0remembered\u00c2\u00a0as one of the most effective Prime Ministers in British history. \u00c2\u00a0Not least among her accomplishments was her steadfast\u00c2\u00a0opposition\u00c2\u00a0to the Soviets in\u00c2\u00a0partnership\u00c2\u00a0with Ronald Reagan and most notably to me her refusal to bow to Argentina and the way in which she prosecuted the 1982-1983\u00c2\u00a0Falklands\u00c2\u00a0War to regain\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0islands after the Argentine&#8217;s invaded and\u00c2\u00a0seized\u00c2\u00a0them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3636\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/maggietank.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3636\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3636\" alt=\"Lady Thatcher riding in a Tank\" src=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/maggietank.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/maggietank.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/maggietank-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lady Thatcher riding in a Tank<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I hope the British realize what a treasure they have\u00c2\u00a0lost\u00c2\u00a0and remember\u00c2\u00a0her fondly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>May she Rest in Peace<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret\u00c2\u00a0Thatcher\u00c2\u00a0 the famous Iron Lady of 1980&#8217;s Britain and only female Prime\u00c2\u00a0Minister\u00c2\u00a0in English History\u00c2\u00a0has passed away in London from an apparent stroke. \u00c2\u00a0She will be\u00c2\u00a0remembered\u00c2\u00a0as one of the most effective Prime Ministers in British history. \u00c2\u00a0Not least among her accomplishments&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2013\/04\/margaret-thatcher-passes-away\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,482,81],"tags":[739,1036,1032,737,559,738,736,735,734,733],"class_list":["post-3635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campaigns-operations","category-geopolitics-statecraft","category-political-history","tag-argentina","tag-british-history","tag-british-military-history","tag-british-pm","tag-death","tag-falklands-war","tag-iron-lady","tag-lady-thatcher","tag-margaret-thatcher","tag-thatcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}