{"id":24542,"date":"2014-11-14T13:31:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T21:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=24542"},"modified":"2014-11-14T13:31:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T21:31:30","slug":"when-thatcher-got-testy-with-reagan-over-grenada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/when-thatcher-got-testy-with-reagan-over-grenada\/","title":{"rendered":"When Thatcher Got Testy With Reagan  &#8212; Over Grenada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maggie Thatcher may have been a staunch Cold Warrior, but she wasn&#8217;t too \u00a0thrilled about Ronald Reagan&#8217;s invasion of the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada, where ultra-leftists \u00a0had assassinated \u00a0the pro-Cuban leader, Maurice Bishop. After all, Grenada, in spite of its leftist government, was still a member of the British Commonwealth, \u00a0and Maggie hadn&#8217;t been let in the loop. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2014\/11\/10\/listen-when-reagan-apologized-to-thatcher-for-a-u-s-invasion\/\">Check out<\/a> \u00a0Ishaan Tharoor&#8217;s piece in the <em>Washington Post<\/em> on the subject: go here for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.margaretthatcher.org\/document\/109426\">a transcript<\/a> of \u00a0the Reagan-Thatcher phone conversation (wherein the Gipper apologizes).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maggie Thatcher may have been a staunch Cold Warrior, but she wasn&#8217;t too \u00a0thrilled about Ronald Reagan&#8217;s invasion of the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada, where ultra-leftists \u00a0had assassinated \u00a0the pro-Cuban leader, Maurice Bishop. After all, Grenada, in spite of its leftist government, was still a member of the British Commonwealth, \u00a0and Maggie hadn&#8217;t been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-24542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24543,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24542\/revisions\/24543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24542"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}