{"id":150,"date":"2025-02-09T00:56:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T00:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/501roseneath.com\/cre.501roseneath.com\/?page_id=150"},"modified":"2025-03-25T00:07:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T00:07:01","slug":"international-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/501roseneath.com\/cre.501roseneath.com\/international-news\/","title":{"rendered":"International News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Perhaps the most notable of newspaper stories, and certainly the one that featured the most amusing headline, came in <em>The Times<\/em> of London on July 9, 1975.  The story was above the fold (meaning it would have been displayed prominently in folded copies on newsstands) and to the right of a photograph of Prince Charles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"985\" height=\"666\" src=\"http:\/\/501roseneath.com\/cre.501roseneath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LondonTimes1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153\" srcset=\"http:\/\/501roseneath.com\/cre.501roseneath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LondonTimes1.png 985w, http:\/\/501roseneath.com\/cre.501roseneath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LondonTimes1-300x203.png 300w, http:\/\/501roseneath.com\/cre.501roseneath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LondonTimes1-768x519.png 768w, http:\/\/501roseneath.com\/cre.501roseneath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LondonTimes1-850x575.png 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 985px) 100vw, 985px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reporter Louis Heren provided lengthy quotes from the original <em>Richmond Mercury <\/em>advertisement and even included the address of the newspaper where contributions could be sent, adding &#8220;Presumably sinking pounds will be accepted, although they may suggest that reunion is not such a good idea after all.&#8221;  (Since February 1975, the pound had dropped nearly 10 percent in value compared to the U.S. dollar and would drop a full 20 percent by the end of the year.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/501roseneath.com\/cre.501roseneath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1975-07-09-London-Times.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See the full article (PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The appearance in <em>The Times <\/em>spurred even more coverage in the United States and led to many letters from British readers, who seemed to understand the joke better than many Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Next: <a href=\"http:\/\/501roseneath.com\/cre.501roseneath.com\/penn-gazette-part-2\/\">Penn Gazette, Part 2<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the most notable of newspaper stories, and certainly the one that featured the most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-150","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/501roseneath.com\/cre.501roseneath.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/501roseneath.com\/cre.501roseneath.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/501roseneath.com\/cre.501roseneath.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/501roseneath.com\/cre.501roseneath.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/501roseneath.com\/cre.501roseneath.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/501roseneath.com\/cre.501roseneath.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"http:\/\/501roseneath.com\/cre.501roseneath.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/501roseneath.com\/cre.501roseneath.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}