{"id":4074,"date":"2010-04-24T10:17:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T18:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2010-04-24T10:17:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T18:17:50","slug":"happy-st-george%e2%80%99s-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/happy-st-george%e2%80%99s-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy St. George\u2019s (Yester)day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the most part, I\u2019m no great fan of saints, a rum bunch of characters too often\u00a0found teetering uneasily between insanity, hysteria and fable. England\u2019s (and I use that national qualifier deliberately) St. George, however, is an exception, decent, brave, martial, thoroughly divorced from his original legend and transformed into an agreeable patriotic myth. He is, in short, everything that a saint should be. That Shakespeare died (and may also have been born) on St George\u2019s Day only makes matters better.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m glad to say that\u00a0England&#8217;s saint\u00a0is making a bit of a comeback. The <em>Daily Telegraph<\/em> has a good roundup of photographs of yesterday&#8217;s celebrations\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/picturegalleries\/uknews\/7624703\/April-23-St-Georges-Day-celebrations-in-pictures.html?image=11\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, as tends to be the case with England\u2019s still surviving, but generally understated, patriotism, it all comes (in this case courtesy of London mayor Boris Johnson at the 2009 celebrations)\u00a0complete with a keen sense of self-mockery:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/conservativehome.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d83451b31c69e201156f4fba00970c-500wi\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the most part, I\u2019m no great fan of saints, a rum bunch of characters too often\u00a0found teetering uneasily between insanity, hysteria and fable. England\u2019s (and I use that national qualifier deliberately) St. George, however, is an exception, decent, brave, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/happy-st-george%e2%80%99s-yesterday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[527],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4075,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions\/4075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}