{"id":114900,"date":"2013-11-15T07:07:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T01:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=114900"},"modified":"2013-11-20T04:24:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T22:54:31","slug":"has-the-queen-politely-joined-the-chogm-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/has-the-queen-politely-joined-the-chogm-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"Has The Queen Politely Joined The CHOGM Boycott?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Elizabeth is staying home with the corgis instead of attending CHOGM in Sri Lanka. By doing so, she makes clear that the Commonwealth should not tolerate criminals, writes Trevor Grant.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/newmatilda.com\/2013\/11\/15\/has-queen-politely-joined-chogm-boycott\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42541\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Queen-and-Mahinda-colombo-telegraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42541\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42541\" alt=\"Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Perth 2011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Queen-and-Mahinda-colombo-telegraph.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Queen-and-Mahinda-colombo-telegraph.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Queen-and-Mahinda-colombo-telegraph-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Perth 2011<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":42541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Has The Queen Politely Joined The CHOGM Boycott? 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