{"id":898,"date":"2014-12-25T17:58:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T16:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/?p=898"},"modified":"2015-01-16T21:41:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T20:41:28","slug":"the-queens-christmas-speech-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/the-queens-christmas-speech-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queen’s Christmas Speech 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II<\/em> has addressed her British subjects in her usual Christmas speech, broadcast on TV a few hours ago today.<\/p>\n

You can watch it here:<\/p>\n

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The key word of Her Majesty’s speech is ‘Reconciliation<\/strong>‘, i.e. a peaceful end to a conflict. She remembers the Christmas of 1914, exactly a hundred years ago today, when German and British troops met in No Man’s Land. The German soldiers sang ‘Silent Night’ or\u00a0 more likely ‘Stille Nacht’ , a carol which has become a legacy of the Christmas truce of 1914.<\/p>\n

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Her Majesty then remembers the thousands of ceramic poppies that dotted, with their bright colours, the ground around the Tower of London last November.<\/p>\n

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Each red poppy is a soldier who died in WWI.<\/p><\/div>\n

Reconciliation can be reached through sport, as it happened this summer in Glasgow with the Commonwealth Games, or through a state visit, like the one the Queen paid\u00a0 to Belfast in June, where she was seen on the set of Games of Thrones by the way.<\/p>\n

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Is that a puzzled look on Her Majesty’s face?<\/p><\/div>\n

Reconciliation will also be needed to abridge the differences in Scotland between those who voted for independence in the recent referendum and those who were against it.<\/p>\n

Merry Christmas<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has addressed her British subjects in her usual Christmas speech, broadcast on TV a few hours ago today. You can watch it here: The key word of Her Majesty’s speech is ‘Reconciliation‘, i.e. a peaceful … Continua a leggere→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,94,124],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-info-from-the-web","tag-christmas","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}