{"id":1039,"date":"2001-06-28T13:54:29","date_gmt":"2001-06-28T12:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2001-06-28T13:54:29","modified_gmt":"2001-06-28T12:54:29","slug":"political-comment-for-today-let","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2001\/06\/28\/political-comment-for-today-let\/","title":{"rendered":"Political comment for today: let"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political comment for today: let me see if I have got <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/uk\/newsid_1411000\/1411271.stm\" title=\"BBC News link\">this<\/a> right &#8211; the government is going to give employees the right to ask for something, and preserve the employer&#8217;s right to say &#8220;no&#8221;. So, um, what is the point of this, exactly? Who, other than the bureaucrats, actually gains from this gem of New Labour thinking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political comment for today: let me see if I have got this right &#8211; the government is going to give employees the right to ask for something, and preserve the employer&#8217;s right to say &#8220;no&#8221;. So, um, what is the point of this, exactly? Who, other than the bureaucrats, actually gains from this gem of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}