{"id":8846,"date":"2012-11-16T18:20:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T18:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardedgit.com\/?p=8846"},"modified":"2012-11-16T18:26:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T18:26:32","slug":"so-did-you-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/?p=8846","title":{"rendered":"So, did you vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"image-fixer-wrapper\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yeah, I'm on about yesterday's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-20356910\" target=\"_blank\">PCC elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I'm not usually apathetic about using my democratic rights, but none of the candidates here seemed to want to put any effort into garnering any support. We've had no canvassers, no leaflets, no posters in the streets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Democracy in action?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">More like Democracy inaction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Would I want our local Constabulary to be run by somebody who couldn't even be arsed to tell us his\/her name, let alone what he\/she stands for?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">No.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I didn't vote because I couldn't make an informed decision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And now they're wondering why the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-politics-20355358\" target=\"_blank\">turnout was so poor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It doesn't take a lot of brain-power to work it out.<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I'm on about yesterday's PCC elections. I'm not usually apathetic about using my democratic rights, but none of the candidates here seemed to want to put any effort into garnering any support. We've had no canvassers, no leaflets, no posters in the streets. Democracy in action? More like Democracy inaction. Would I want our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant-mode","category-in-the-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8846"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8851,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846\/revisions\/8851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}