{"id":48342,"date":"2022-09-09T13:22:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T04:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/09\/flags-at-half-mast-and-a-complicated-colonial-legacy-pacific-countries-remember-the-queen"},"modified":"2022-09-09T13:22:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T04:22:56","slug":"flags-at-half-mast-and-a-complicated-colonial-legacy-pacific-countries-remember-the-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48342","title":{"rendered":"Flags at half-mast and a complicated colonial legacy: Pacific countries remember the Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven Pacific countries are part of the Commonwealth, though many have  become young republics in the last few decades<\/p>\n<p>George Mackenzie was in first grade at Koloale primary school in Honiara when Queen Elizabeth first visited Solomon Islands in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remembered we were all lined up along Chinatown under the pouring rain to wave our union jack flags at the Queen when she drove past us,\u201d said Mackenzie, who is now 57.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/09\/flags-at-half-mast-and-a-complicated-colonial-legacy-pacific-countries-remember-the-queen\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven Pacific countries are part of the Commonwealth, though many have  become young republics in the last few decadesGeorge Mackenzie was in first grade at Koloale primary school in Honiara when Queen Elizabeth first visited Solomon Islands in 1974.\u201c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,436,1611,874,63,282,1985,52,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-monarchy","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands","category-south-pacific","category-the-queen","category-uk-news","category-vanuatu","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48343,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48342\/revisions\/48343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}