{"id":6542,"date":"2011-02-10T09:11:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T09:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=6542"},"modified":"2011-02-10T09:11:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T09:11:44","slug":"the-englishness-of-english-policy-english-gardening-and-english-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/the-englishness-of-english-policy-english-gardening-and-english-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Englishness of English policy, English gardening and English gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y9Ut4rhEXXQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nA video clip of a 71-year-old lady using her handbag to stop a gang of thieves robbing a jeweller is being shown everywhere. Ann Timson deserves to be memorialised in a park or garden. She encapsulates a strand in English foreign policy and English garden design. Instead of making a permanent alliance with any foreign power, England&#8217;s aim was always to maintain a balance of power and to support the rights of small countries. Burglars had to be fought. Bullies had to be defeated. It was self-interest. Nor was any foreign style of garden design ever adopted in its entirety. Nor is any one plant allowed to dominate a garden. Young plants are cherished like children \u2013 and then ruthlessly cut back when they begin to overwhelm their neighbours. A good place for a statue of Ann Timson bashing the burglars would be at the other end of Victoria Tower Gardens from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.360cities.net\/image\/burghers-of-calais-westminster-london#0.00,0.00,70.0\">Rodin\u2019s Burghers of Calais<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note: if the Youtube link does not work, the video can also be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginmedia.com\/funny-videos\/video\/elderly-lady-handbags-gang\/781169496001\/\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1354668\/Woman-pensioner-foils-sledgehammer-jewellery-store-raid-clobbering-thugs-handbag.html?ITO=1490\">here<\/a> or, with an advert and an American commentary, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/northampton-grandmother-stops-jewelry-store-robbery-handbag\/story?id=12866752\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video clip of a 71-year-old lady using her handbag to stop a gang of thieves robbing a jeweller is being shown everywhere. Ann Timson deserves to be memorialised in a park or garden. She encapsulates a strand in English foreign policy and English garden design. Instead of making a permanent alliance with any foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}