{"id":56782,"date":"2024-08-16T10:30:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T02:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/?p=56782"},"modified":"2024-08-16T10:30:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T02:30:49","slug":"reading-a-portion-of-the-empire-strikes-back-of-there-is-no-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/reading-a-portion-of-the-empire-strikes-back-of-there-is-no-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading a portion of &#8220;The Empire strikes back&#8221; of &#8220;There is no alternative.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This morning we read a small portion of &#8220;The Empire Strikes Back&#8221; of Claire Berlinski&#8217;s &#8220;There is no alternative&#8221;, which is a book about Margaret Thatcher. I first encountered this book some years ago when I was watching a conversation between Peter Robinson and Claire Berlinski on his show &#8220;Uncommon Knowledge&#8221; on YouTube. I have yet to finish reading the book, and it presents an interesting point of view. I shall take my time to enjoy finishing it in the coming days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">How about you? Think you could do with some Read Aloud practice?<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1140px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-56782-1\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/The-empire-strikes-back-2024-08-16.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/The-empire-strikes-back-2024-08-16.mp4\">http:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/The-empire-strikes-back-2024-08-16.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Cell\/ Whatsapp: (65) 97119005<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">E: <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"mailto:elijah@purposelypeople.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elijah@purposelypeople.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we read a small portion of &#8220;The Empire Strikes Back&#8221; of Claire Berlinski&#8217;s &#8220;There is no alternative&#8221;, which is a book about Margaret Thatcher. I first encountered this book some years ago when I was watching a conversation between Peter Robinson and Claire Berlinski on his show &#8220;Uncommon Knowledge&#8221; on YouTube. I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[560],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-read-aloud-with-grampa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/The-empire-strikes-back-2024-08-16.jpg?fit=1511%2C1125&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2EiEv-eLQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56786,"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56782\/revisions\/56786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposelypeople.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}