{"id":566,"date":"2011-05-04T16:28:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T16:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2011-05-12T18:08:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T18:08:28","slug":"election-day-wake-us-when-its-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"Election Day. Wake us when it&#8217;s over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We agree, it is hard to muster any enthusiasm at all after what must be the most lacklustre election campaign in history. Tomorrow we go to the polls to<a title=\"Runners and Riders in the District Election stakes \u2013 5 May\" href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=460\" target=\"_blank\"> elect our district council. <\/a>Does anyone care?<\/p>\n<p>Please do exercise your democratic right, and remember, you have<strong> two votes. <\/strong>Make sure you use them both.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a referendum on the alternative voting system. Another lacklustre and confusing campaign.\u00a0 There is a very good, unbiased explanation<a title=\"The Electoral commission\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutmyvote.co.uk\/how_do_i_vote\/voting_systems\/general_uk_parliamentary_ele.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a>. Hope it helps.<\/p>\n<p>Happy\u00a0voting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We agree, it is hard to muster any enthusiasm at all after what must be the most lacklustre election campaign in history. Tomorrow we go to the polls to elect our district council. Does anyone care? Please do exercise your democratic right, and remember, you have two votes. Make sure you use them both. There &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=566\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Election Day. Wake us when it&#8217;s over&#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":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-98","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","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=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}