{"id":256,"date":"2011-04-29T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2011\/04\/7-quick-takes-friday-the-royal-wedding-edition\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T23:44:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T04:44:52","slug":"7-quick-takes-friday-the-royal-wedding-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2011\/04\/7-quick-takes-friday-the-royal-wedding-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes Friday! The Royal Wedding Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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Oh, yes. I am jumping on the bandwagon and writing my quick takes about the wedding to end all weddings.<\/p>\n

Let it first be known that I did not watch the wedding because we have neither cable nor any other access to television aside from Netflix. So everything I know about the wedding, I learned from the internet. Kind of like everything else in my life.<\/p>\n

#7<\/div>\n
Kate Middleton FTW!<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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(Go to this website <\/a>for more awesome Duchess of Cambridge pictures)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Seriously. Look at that girl. Just look at her! She\u2019s gorgeous, glamorous, elegant and everything a princess should be. She\u2019s the type of princess the people of England hoped Princess Di would be, and their overwhelming hopes just crushed poor Di.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Kate can take it. Hope away, ye Brits.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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#6<\/div>\n
A Semi-Acquaintance of Mine from High School with Whom I am Friends on Facebook<\/div>\n
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posted this link this morning: Why Americans Should Care About the Royal Wedding<\/a><\/div>\n
(Please take two seconds to click on the link, otherwise you won\u2019t have any idea what I\u2019m talking about.)<\/div>\n
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This kind of stuff really irritates me. Oh yes, as Americans, we are so frakking superior to you stupid, stodgy Brits still stuck in the fairy-tale of monarchy.<\/i>\u00a0<\/div>\n
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No, I don\u2019t think so. I could go into a long explanation about why I think that the British monarchy still means something, and why I think that the British people\u2019s love of their monarchs is evidence of a deep, abiding goodness that we Americans are losing, or I could just show these two pictures.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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I think I\u2019ll go with plan B.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Which woman would you rather have representing you? Because I\u2019d feel much more secure in the hands of a Burberry trench-coat wearing princess than in the hands of sloppy, t-shirt and short shorts wearing wife of national embarrassment. <\/div>\n
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#5<\/div>\n
Maybe That\u2019s a Cheap Shot<\/div>\n
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\u2026 but I don\u2019t think so.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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The monarchy is dignified. Nasty, adulterous scandals of the previous generation notwithstanding, the monarchy represents something that is rapidly slipping away from our world.<\/div>\n
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Class (and the fact that everyone reads this word and automatically thinks \u201csocial class\u201d is exactly what I\u2019m talking about). Propriety. Dignity. Honor. All those things that we Americans tend to look down upon as \u201csnobbery\u201d or, as Seinfeld so eloquently put it<\/a>, \u201ca circus act.\u201d<\/div>\n
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I don\u2019t agree with Seinfeld, but I can\u2019t really tell you why. I\u2019ve never given much thought to political systems or the institution of the monarchy, but lately it seems to me that the British royals are the last bastion of a better time. <\/div>\n
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#4<\/div>\n
Or Maybe<\/div>\n
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all of the hullabaloo over the royal wedding isn\u2019t over the royal <\/i>part of it at all\u2026maybe, at it\u2019s heart, what the people of England and some of us from other parts of the world are really cheering about is the wedding<\/i>. <\/div>\n
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#3<\/div>\n
In A Time<\/div>\n
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when more marriages fall apart than stay together, maybe what we\u2019re all really hoping for, when we look at this fairy-tale couple, is a fairy-tale ending.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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#2<\/div>\n
Deep Down<\/div>\n
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we all know that divorce is destructive. Even if some of us don\u2019t have a moral objection to it, there\u2019s just no denying that it\u2019s extremely painful for everyone involved.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Prince Charles and Princess Di\u2019s marriage ended in disaster. They were hurt, the children were hurt, the extended royal family was hurt, and even the people of England were hurt. Everyone felt betrayed.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Watching William and Kate get married is like getting a second chance. They\u2019re a beacon of all the things that our world once cherished\u2026traditional values, traditional government, even a traditional wedding dress! I think we\u2019re all watching with bated breath, hoping for their marriage to last. <\/div>\n
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#1<\/div>\n
It Seems That\u00a0<\/div>\n
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great minds do indeed think alike, because the Ogre just pointed me to an article in the National Review\u2019s online blog today that\u2019s pondering the royal wedding along the same lines. Go check it out. <\/a><\/div>\n
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Have a great weekend, everyone! Here\u2019s wishing you lots of tea and crumpets!\u00a0<\/div>\n
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(Does anyone know what a crumpet is?)<\/div>\n
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