{"id":5669,"date":"2005-04-18T16:38:49","date_gmt":"2005-04-18T15:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/?p=5669"},"modified":"2005-04-18T16:38:49","modified_gmt":"2005-04-18T15:38:49","slug":"spoilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2005\/04\/18\/spoilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who, like me, are considering not voting or spoiling their paper in the forthcoming election: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notapathetic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Not Apathetic\">Not Apathetic<\/a>.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m under some pressure from my wife to &quot;vote properly&quot;. I can understand her reasons for this, and feel strongly that I have a moral responsibility to attend the polling station. But without a &quot;none of the above&quot; option, is it right that I should put my vote against a party or candidate whose policies I do not support?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who, like me, are considering not voting or spoiling their paper in the forthcoming election: Not Apathetic. I&#8217;m under some pressure from my wife to &quot;vote properly&quot;. I can understand her reasons for this, and feel strongly that I have a moral responsibility to attend the polling station. But without a &quot;none 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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5669","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\/5669","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=5669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}