{"id":131686,"date":"2018-11-13T16:04:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T16:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=131686"},"modified":"2018-11-13T16:14:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T16:14:27","slug":"ted-heath-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2018\/11\/13\/ted-heath-said\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Heath said"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Ted Heath saw: \u201cthe growth of a nasty, narrow-minded nationalism, which believes that we can survive without the rest of the world and, in its more arrogant form, that we can just tell the rest of the world what it should do. We think that we can tell the rest of the world, \u201cDo what we say, or else we go\u201d, implying that our loss is so great that they are bound to do what we say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn the modern world,\u201d he concluded, \u201cnothing could be further from the truth.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"blob:http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/63b89370-cebb-46d9-84d3-2a06c7a8557e\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"362\" data-attachment-id=\"131691\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2018\/11\/13\/ted-heath-said\/20160620_105536-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/20160620_105536-1.jpg?fit=2560%2C1536&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1536\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-J100H&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1466420136&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.31&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00072568940493469&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20160620_105536\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/20160620_105536-1.jpg?fit=604%2C362&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/20160620_105536-1.jpg?resize=604%2C362\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/20160620_105536-1.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/20160620_105536-1.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/20160620_105536-1.jpg?resize=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/20160620_105536-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C614&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/20160620_105536-1.jpg?w=1208 1208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/20160620_105536-1.jpg?w=1812 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Heath saw: \u201cthe growth of a nasty, narrow-minded nationalism, which believes that we can survive without the rest of the world and, in its more arrogant form, that we can just tell the rest of the world what it should do. We think that we can tell the rest of the world, \u201cDo what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2018\/11\/13\/ted-heath-said\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ted Heath said<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-yfY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":178558,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/01\/17\/go-on-then-you-know-you-want-to\/","url_meta":{"origin":131686,"position":0},"title":"Go on Then You Know You Want to&#8230;","author":"diana Stone","date":"January 17, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Well I want to anyway and what's the harm in it anyway I say. 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