{"id":52900,"date":"2022-09-12T01:30:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T01:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52900"},"modified":"2022-09-12T01:30:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T01:30:48","slug":"its-just-going-to-be-president-and-mrs-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52900","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s just going to be President and Mrs. Biden"},"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>Well, it appears that President Biden won&#8217;t have to wring his hands over who would accompany him and his wife to Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s state funeral in a few days.<\/p>\n<p>The royal family invited only the Bidens, meaning that the president and first lady will travel to the United Kingdom by themselves to attend Her Majesty&#8217;s funeral.<\/p>\n<p>There had been some chatter over whether Biden would invite any or all of his presidential predecessors to the funeral. I had argued that Biden should invite Donald Trump, even though his immediate predecessor has a ton of baggage that might preclude his accepting an invitation. You know what I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>That won&#8217;t happen. It&#8217;s just the current POTUS and the first lady. Biden has accepted the invitation formally.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s that. The president won&#8217;t be losing any sleep &#8230; at least not over this matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>Well, it appears that President Biden won&#8217;t have to wring his hands over who would accompany him and his wife to Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s state funeral in a few days. The royal family invited only the Bidens, meaning that the president and first lady will travel to the United Kingdom by themselves to attend Her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52900\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s just going to be President and Mrs. Biden<\/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":[2505,3791,9999],"class_list":["post-52900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","tag-state-funeral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52900","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=52900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52901,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52900\/revisions\/52901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}