{"id":23333,"date":"2008-02-25T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/02\/25\/the-united-kingdom-of-great-britain-northern-ireland-and-france\/"},"modified":"2008-02-25T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T10:00:01","slug":"the-united-kingdom-of-great-britain-northern-ireland-and-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080225-01\/?p=23333","title":{"rendered":"The United Kingdom of Great Britain, Northern Ireland, and France?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently-unearthed documents reveal that back in the 1950&#8217;s, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=6859736\"> France proposed merging with United Kingdom into a single country<\/a> or at least joining the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealth-of-nations.org\/article.php\"> Commonwealth<\/a>. Apparently, Churchill proposed a similar alliance in the 1940. It too was rejected. (<a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2003526582_frangland16.html\">Other coverage<\/a>. There&#8217;s a secret joke in that article: Check out the URL.)\n Apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=6888941\"> the proposal was never seriously considered<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Ah, what could have been&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently-unearthed documents reveal that back in the 1950&#8217;s, France proposed merging with United Kingdom into a single country or at least joining the Commonwealth. Apparently, Churchill proposed a similar alliance in the 1940. It too was rejected. (Other coverage. There&#8217;s a secret joke in that article: Check out the URL.) Apparently, the proposal was never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-23333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Recently-unearthed documents reveal that back in the 1950&#8217;s, France proposed merging with United Kingdom into a single country or at least joining the Commonwealth. Apparently, Churchill proposed a similar alliance in the 1940. It too was rejected. (Other coverage. There&#8217;s a secret joke in that article: Check out the URL.) Apparently, the proposal was never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}