{"id":32411,"date":"2021-04-17T22:01:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T12:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=32411"},"modified":"2024-06-25T05:19:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T19:19:43","slug":"walking-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=32411","title":{"rendered":"Walking Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tony<\/p>\n

I have heard this same story quite a while ago now with other than Tony’s name so I doubt it’s true but it’s good for a laugh!<\/p>\n

\n
On a recent trip to the United States , Tony Blair, Ex. Prime Minister of the UK and now U.N. Middle East Peace Envoy, addressed a major gathering of Native American Indians.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
He spoke for almost two hours on his success in bringing about a lasting peace settlement amongst the warring nations of the Middle East, likening it to the way that the U.S. Government found a suitable agreement with the North American tribes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
At the conclusion of his speech, the crowd presented him with a plaque inscribed with his new Indian name – Walking Eagle.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
A very chuffed Tony then departed in his motorcade, waving to the crowds..<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
A news reporter later asked one of the Indians how they came to select the new name given to Tony Blair They explained that Walking Eagle is the name given to a bird so full of rubbish that it can no longer fly.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have heard this same story quite a while ago now with other than Tony’s name so I doubt it’s true but it’s good for a laugh! On a recent trip to the United States , Tony Blair, Ex. Prime Minister of the UK and now U.N. Middle East Peace Envoy, addressed a major gathering … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Walking Eagle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-humourhumor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50510,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32411\/revisions\/50510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}