{"id":3267,"date":"2014-09-18T15:18:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T15:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2014-09-18T15:18:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T15:18:34","slug":"scottish-referendum-horsington-speaks-for-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3267","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Referendum: Horsington speaks for the nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A readers\u2019 survey conducted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benchpoint.com\" target=\"_blank\">Benchpoint<\/a> for the Blog showed that nearly 87% of readers believe Scotland should remain in the UK. 13% believe it should be an independent nation.<\/p>\n<p>The same proportion (87%) believes that the \u201cNo\u201d vote will carry the day in the actual referendum.<\/p>\n<p>23 people took part in the survey, a remarkable result given that the blog has been asleep for most of the summer. One response came from Canada, the other from Germany, so thank you, our foreign readers.<\/p>\n<p>You can look at the results in detail <a title=\"Horsington Blog Survey result\" href=\"http:\/\/questionpro.com\/s\/1-2363065-3956581\" target=\"_blank\">here. . . <\/a><\/p>\n<p>We know of one Horsington resident who, tempted by the odds on offer from the bookies, put his shirt on a \u201cyes\u201d vote. Who? Our lips remain sealed.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the media has begun to report a serious backlash against the result (whatever it is). It started with a fake frontier post on the border, and then escalated as these exclusive previews show. And it\u2019s still 7 months to April 1<sup>st<\/sup>!<a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2014\/09\/Scottish-Telegraph.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3265\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?attachment_id=3265\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2014\/09\/Scottish-Telegraph.png\" data-orig-size=\"625,717\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Scottish Telegraph\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2014\/09\/Scottish-Telegraph.png\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3265\" src=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2014\/09\/Scottish-Telegraph.png\" alt=\"Scottish Telegraph\" width=\"625\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2014\/09\/Scottish-Telegraph.png 625w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2014\/09\/Scottish-Telegraph-261x300.png 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2014\/09\/Scottish-DM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3266\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?attachment_id=3266\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2014\/09\/Scottish-DM.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"443,601\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Scottish DM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2014\/09\/Scottish-DM.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3266\" src=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2014\/09\/Scottish-DM.jpg\" alt=\"Scottish DM\" width=\"443\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2014\/09\/Scottish-DM.jpg 443w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2014\/09\/Scottish-DM-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 85vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2014\/09\/Scottish-Sun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3264\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?attachment_id=3264\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2014\/09\/Scottish-Sun.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"625,803\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Scottish Sun\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2014\/09\/Scottish-Sun.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3264\" src=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2014\/09\/Scottish-Sun.jpg\" alt=\"Scottish Sun\" width=\"625\" height=\"803\" srcset=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2014\/09\/Scottish-Sun.jpg 625w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2014\/09\/Scottish-Sun-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A readers\u2019 survey conducted by Benchpoint for the Blog showed that nearly 87% of readers believe Scotland should remain in the UK. 13% believe it should be an independent nation. The same proportion (87%) believes that the \u201cNo\u201d vote will carry the day in the actual referendum. 23 people took part in the survey, a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3267\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scottish Referendum: Horsington speaks for the nation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[794,2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-QH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3269,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions\/3269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}