{"id":457,"date":"2005-11-02T09:30:30","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T17:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/11\/british_royalty_in_new_york_city_met_with_wadlerian_yawn.html"},"modified":"2005-11-02T09:30:30","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T17:30:30","slug":"british_royalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/british_royalty.html","title":{"rendered":"British Royalty In New York City Met With Wadlerian Yawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve come a long way since revolutionaries melted down a statue of King George III and used the scrap for bullets &#8212; evidenced by one-time Boldface Names Captain Joyce Wadler <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/11\/02\/nyregion\/02prince.html?ex=1288587600&#038;en=2ec0e31fdf69b212&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">cutting to the chase on the topic Charles and Camilla&#8217;s royal visit to the city<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>But since this is, after all, a marketing tour for Britain, the big question remains: How is the 58-year-old duchess, who has been viewed as an ungainly frump throughout her long liaison with the prince, looking these days?<\/p>\n<p>This was a hard question to determine, for those in the small, undemonstrative crowd at Photo Op No. 1, the World Trade Center, had to squint through a chain link fence to try to see the duchess, who was outfitted as conspicuously as possible in a brilliant fuchsia suit with a matching velvet collar. She had several strings of pearls around her neck, carried a black rectangular clutch bag and &#8211; this is most important &#8211; wore black stilettos, a sign, when worn by a middle-aged woman, that she is really, really trying.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve come a long way since revolutionaries melted down a statue of King George III and used the scrap for bullets &#8212; evidenced by one-time Boldface Names Captain Joyce Wadler cutting to the chase on the topic Charles and Camilla&#8217;s royal visit to the city: But since this is, after all, a marketing tour for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}