So much for water under the bridge: The British Embassy in the United States is apologizing for a tweet on Sunday in which it jokingly referred to the burning of the White House 200 years ago by the British.Here's the original tweet:Marie Harf, a deputy spokesperson for the State Department, acknowledged shortly thereafter that "#itsComplicated."But after a barrage of tweets questioning the taste of the original tweet, the British Embassy issued an apology:We'd go into the history of all of this, but our colleagues at All Things Considered did a spectacular job of that last week. Listen: Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
