{"id":907,"date":"2004-05-20T15:37:08","date_gmt":"2004-05-20T19:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=907"},"modified":"2015-12-28T10:18:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T15:18:52","slug":"lm-montgomery-on-queen-victoria-by-lytton-strachey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=907","title":{"rendered":"LM Montgomery on \u201cQueen Victoria\u201d by Lytton Strachey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lord, how he smashes our old idols!  When I was a child and young girl, the Victorian myth was in full flower &#8230; In those days every home boasted a framed picture of the queen.  I thought her ugly.  Strachey&#8217;s book rather justifies me to myself.  Poor Victoria hadn&#8217;t any chance to be bad if she wanted to be &#8212; and I <u>do <\/u>think she got tired at times of being so exceedingly proper &#8230; Her reign was a very wonderful epoch and its wonder made of a dumpy and dowdy little woman a symbol.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=1503014452&#038;asins=1503014452&#038;linkId=N2CM3KUOWJAWLYJB&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lord, how he smashes our old idols! When I was a child and young girl, the Victorian myth was in full flower &#8230; In those days every home boasted a framed picture of the queen. I thought her ugly. Strachey&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=907\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[183],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101426,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/101426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}