{"id":3935,"date":"2003-04-29T12:43:52","date_gmt":"2003-04-29T11:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=3935"},"modified":"2003-04-29T12:43:52","modified_gmt":"2003-04-29T11:43:52","slug":"nick-assinder-previews-the-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2003\/04\/29\/nick-assinder-previews-the-local\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Assinder previews the local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/2984323.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News\">Nick Assinder previews the local elections<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">Thursday&#8217;s local elections will, according to the big political parties, be all about local issues.<br \/>\nVoters aren&#8217;t giving their verdict on the performance of the government or opposition or their leaders, but on the state of local services, they insist.<br \/>\nThey don&#8217;t believe a word of it, of course.<\/div>\n<p>I predict a landslide victory for apathy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Assinder previews the local elections: Thursday&#8217;s local elections will, according to the big political parties, be all about local issues. Voters aren&#8217;t giving their verdict on the performance of the government or opposition or their leaders, but on the state of local services, they insist. They don&#8217;t believe a word of it, of course. [&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-3935","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\/3935","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=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}