{"id":29,"date":"2005-11-03T03:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/2005\/11\/03\/e-r-or-elizabeth-regina-or-elizabeth-the-queen\/"},"modified":"2005-11-03T03:37:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T03:37:00","slug":"e-r-or-elizabeth-regina-or-elizabeth-the-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/2005\/11\/03\/e-r-or-elizabeth-regina-or-elizabeth-the-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"E R or Elizabeth Regina or Elizabeth the Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1742\/1575\/320\/EIIR_Cypher.1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 200px\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1742\/1575\/320\/EIIR_Cypher.1.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you are in England everything seems to be monogramed with &#8220;E R&#8221; Sometimes without the crown.<\/p>\n<p>That is because the Queen owns everything&#8230;sorta. She is the Queen, the head of state, the top of the heap&#8230;..You get the idea&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To continue, most national <i>(I said most)<\/i> are royal, The Royal Mint, the The Royal Botanic Gardens, The Royal Mail&#8230;Oh yes&#8230;The royal Mail.<\/p>\n<p>When I was in Guildford I was intrigued by a couple of mail (or post) boxes on the street.<\/p>\n<p>Here they are; can you spot the difference?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table><\/p>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1742\/1575\/1600\/PICT5256.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1742\/1575\/320\/PICT5256.jpg\" alt=\"AR\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span>AR<\/span>  <\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1742\/1575\/1600\/PICT5246.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1742\/1575\/320\/PICT5246.0.jpg\" alt=\"GR\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<div>GR       <\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Give up?<br \/>Look under the pictures.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I think&#8230;AR is Albert REX (Albert the King) and GR is George REX (George the King)<br \/>It is possible that it was too expensive to change these post boxes or the town<span style=\"font-style: italic\"> (not a city or a village, thats another story)<\/span> of Gulidford just liked them and wanted to be reminded of past monarchs. I&#8217;ll never really know.<\/p>\n<p>Think you know? Leave me a comment.<\/p>\n<p>S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are in England everything seems to be monogramed with &#8220;E R&#8221; Sometimes without the crown. That is because the Queen owns everything&#8230;sorta. She is the Queen, the head of state, the top of the heap&#8230;..You get the idea&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/2005\/11\/03\/e-r-or-elizabeth-regina-or-elizabeth-the-queen\/\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/gofani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}