{"id":3647,"date":"2015-04-16T13:28:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T13:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3647"},"modified":"2015-04-16T13:36:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T13:36:22","slug":"is-there-an-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3647","title":{"rendered":"Election fever grips Horsington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mrs Badger writes . . .<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dear Editor,<\/p>\n<p>I am very disappointed on the level of election coverage in the Blog. I would have hoped for some erudite comment and some forensic analysis of the various policies on offer from the different parties. When my late husband was alive he would be up all night poring over magazines and websites, studying the finer points of the election debate.<\/p>\n<p>I live alone, and would welcome some advice on where to place my vote.<\/p>\n<p>Yours,<br \/>\nAmelia Badger (Mrs)<\/p>\n<p><em>The Blog&#8217;s political correspondent Kevin Mustard has sent us this postcard. \u00a0He says that on the fees the Blog pays him, it&#8217;s all we can expect, but we hope he will file something more substantial before the big day -Ed<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2015\/04\/You-kip-low-res.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3648\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?attachment_id=3648\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2015\/04\/You-kip-low-res.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"904,604\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Richard&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1429192833&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=\"You kip low res\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2015\/04\/You-kip-low-res.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3648\" src=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2015\/04\/You-kip-low-res.jpg\" alt=\"You kip low res\" width=\"904\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2015\/04\/You-kip-low-res.jpg 904w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2015\/04\/You-kip-low-res-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs Badger writes . . . Dear Editor, I am very disappointed on the level of election coverage in the Blog. I would have hoped for some erudite comment and some forensic analysis of the various policies on offer from the different parties. When my late husband was alive he would be up all night &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3647\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Election fever grips Horsington&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-WP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647","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=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3652,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions\/3652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}