{"id":5423,"date":"2005-01-07T09:47:15","date_gmt":"2005-01-07T09:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=5423"},"modified":"2005-01-07T09:47:15","modified_gmt":"2005-01-07T09:47:15","slug":"and-in-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2005\/01\/07\/and-in-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"And in other news&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To give you some variety from the normal diet of current affairs culled from the BBC News pages, here are some headlines from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"CNN\">CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.aimtoday.cnn.com\/news\/story.jsp?idq=\/ff\/story\/0001%2F20050106%2F1342601202.htm&amp;sc=1153&amp;photoid=20050105ILCA102\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"CNN News\">Democrats force debate on election mishaps<\/a> &#8211; won&#8217;t change anything, but might just improve things for the next time around (but then a lot of people said that after the last time). See also <a href=\"http:\/\/miamedia.com\/votergate\/20facts.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"MiaMedia\">20 facts about voting in the USA<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/01\/06\/tsunami.poll\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"CNN News\">Americans polled offered more prayer than cash<\/a> to tsunami victims. This speaks volumes about the state of the American nation, as well as being a damning indictment of the screwed up idea of faith that most people have (I was taught at school that giving was an integral part of Christianity &#8211; it seems that the American people have forgotten that).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/01\/07\/train.wreck\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"CNN News\">Train crash kills 8, injures 240<\/a> in South Carolina. This story hasn&#8217;t been reported by the BBC at all at this time.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2005\/LAW\/01\/07\/mississippi.rights\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"CNN News\">New arrest in 1964 civil rights murder case<\/a> &#8211; the case that inspired the film Mississippi Burning. Pity that it has taken 40 years to get to this stage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To give you some variety from the normal diet of current affairs culled from the BBC News pages, here are some headlines from CNN: Democrats force debate on election mishaps &#8211; won&#8217;t change anything, but might just improve things for the next time around (but then a lot of people said that after the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423","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=5423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}