{"id":825,"date":"2019-10-10T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=825"},"modified":"2023-04-05T21:36:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T11:36:11","slug":"oh-for-a-proper-head-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Oh, for a Proper Head of State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once again, WfaAR sees an excellent&nbsp;example of a properly functioning&nbsp;Head of State, engaged with the interests of his people. Our attention was caught by a statement made by Michael D Higgins, President of the Republic of Ireland who&nbsp;was invited by The New&nbsp;York Times to&nbsp;make a contribution to the annual Athens Democracy Forum gathering in Greece during the week. Higgins addressed the subject: What does a new form of European unity look like going into the third decade of the century? Speaking personally but authoritatively Higgins discusses &#8220;the urgent need in both scholarship and a diplomacy that, at present, is trapped in a narrow theory of interests to change by making new connections between economics, ecology and ethics, thus forging a new path on which we can travel together&#8221;. He concludes by writing, &#8221; We must do this not just for our benefit, but for the future generations to whom, we, surely, have a responsibility to create a peaceful, harmonious world that is supported by a sustainable vision of economy and society, and enriched by a diversity of cultures.&#8221; Heard anything like that from the Queen or the Governor-General lately? [&#8220;Seeking an Inclusive European Unity&#8221; by Michael D Higgins, The New York Times International Edition, 10 October 2019]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, WfaAR sees an excellent&nbsp;example of a properly functioning&nbsp;Head of State, engaged with the interests of his people. Our attention was caught by a statement made by Michael D Higgins, President of the Republic of Ireland who&nbsp;was invited by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11","wpcat-11-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}