{"id":4170,"date":"2018-03-05T16:40:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T13:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:40:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T13:40:58","slug":"england-without-a-king-how-should-the-country-be-governed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/historical-periods\/early-modern\/england-without-a-king-how-should-the-country-be-governed\/","title":{"rendered":"England without a King: How should the country be governed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0abb180415.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4165\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0abb180415.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0abb180415.jpg 435w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0abb180415-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0abb180415-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAfter the execution of Charles I in 1649 England became a republic &#8211; a country without a King &#8211; and was called the &#8216;Commonwealth&#8217; after the phrase &#8216;Common Weal&#8217; or ordinary people. No-one had any experience of how to run the country, but there were several groups who had their own ideas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the execution of Charles I in 1649 England became a republic &#8211; a country without a King &#8211; and was called the &#8216;Commonwealth&#8217; after the phrase &#8216;Common Weal&#8217; or ordinary people. No-one had any experience of how to run the country, but there were several groups who had their own ideas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[922,565,923,740],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-15g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4171,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions\/4171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}