{"id":10949,"date":"2015-09-10T14:53:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T14:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10949"},"modified":"2015-09-10T14:54:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T14:54:29","slug":"queen-e-replaces-queen-v-as-longest-on-the-throne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10949","title":{"rendered":"Queen E replaces Queen V as longest on the throne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Elizabeth.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10951\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Elizabeth.png\" alt=\"Elizabeth\" width=\"240\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A story out of Great Britain got me to remembering a hilarious quip that a young typesetter once muttered way back in the old days.<\/p>\n<p>Queen Elizabeth II is now the longest-reigning monarch in British history, having served longer than Queen Victoria, who sat on the throne from 1837 until her death in 1901.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats belong to Her Majesty the Queen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/2015\/09\/09\/pivotal-moments-queen-elizabeth-ii-63-year-reign-uk-monarch\/71928044\/\">Queen sets record on UK throne<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back to the quip.<\/p>\n<p>I worked from 1977 until 1984 at a\u00a0daily newspaper in Oregon City, Ore. The Enterprise-Courier no longer exists, but it once was a feisty little paper that sought to compete under the shadow of the one-time behemoth The Oregonian.<\/p>\n<p>It was an afternoon paper, which meant I got to the office early in the morning to start &#8220;stripping the wire&#8221; of hard copy and separating the stories into appropriate categories: national, international and state\/regional.<\/p>\n<p>I came upon a tidbit that United Press International published daily. It was a factoid, kind of a trivia item. One morning I saw on the wire that Queen Victoria was the longest-serving monarch in Britain. She&#8217;d been queen for 63 years.<\/p>\n<p>I turned to one of our typesetters, a quiet young woman whose name escapes me, and mentioned how long Queen V had been on the British throne.<\/p>\n<p>Her response? &#8220;You mean she had to <em>hold it that long?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story out of Great Britain got me to remembering a hilarious quip that a young typesetter once muttered way back in the old days. Queen Elizabeth II is now the longest-reigning monarch in British history, having served longer than Queen Victoria, who sat on the throne from 1837 until her death in 1901. Congrats &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10949\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Queen E replaces Queen V as longest on the throne<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5459,3791,5458,5012],"class_list":["post-10949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-oregon-city-enterprise-courier","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","tag-queen-victoria","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10952,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949\/revisions\/10952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}