{"id":1067,"date":"2006-01-26T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T07:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/26\/113826229847674883\/"},"modified":"2006-01-26T07:51:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T07:51:00","slug":"113826229847674883","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/113826229847674883\/","title":{"rendered":"113826229847674883"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4649266.stm\" title=\"BBC - Hughes reveals gay relationships\">Yawn&#8230;<\/a> Interesting wording, though:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am perfectly willing to say I have had both homosexual and heterosexual relationships in the past.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course you are, Simon, you&#8217;re a politician, so perfectly willing to say anything that might get you a little bit of power and\/or positive attention. There&#8217;s also a nice attempt to head off any Oaten\/Kennedy-style tabloid revelations at the pass:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I do not believe that anything that I have done has impinged upon my capacity to serve my constituents or fulfil any of the roles that I have sought, undertaken or am seeking for the future&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the end result is the same &#8211; he&#8217;s a Lib Dem, so no one cares.<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yawn&#8230; Interesting wording, though: &#8220;I am perfectly willing to say I have had both homosexual and heterosexual relationships in the past.&#8221; Of course you are, Simon, you&#8217;re a politician, so perfectly willing to say anything that might get you a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/113826229847674883\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}