{"id":1145,"date":"2006-03-02T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/02\/114131442581009090\/"},"modified":"2007-01-20T21:45:45","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T21:45:45","slug":"sir-menzies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/sir-menzies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Menzies"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4763646.stm\" title=\"BBC - Sir Menzies wins Lib Dem contest\">Yet more proof that you can&#8217;t believe the polls&#8230;<\/a> 57% is a landslide in a thee-way race, second choice votes not withstanding. Huhne and Hughes evidently didn&#8217;t have a chance.<\/p>\n<p>Now can we finally get some kind of standardised form of writing the guy&#8217;s sodding name? It&#8217;s MENZIES, not Ming. You don&#8217;t go around spelling Edinburgh &#8220;Edinburuh&#8221;, so why spell his name differently?<\/p>\n<p>Either way: Blair, Cameron and Campbell &#8211; those Campaign for and English Parliament bods must be pleased to have the three main parties led by people with Scottish surnames&#8230;<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet more proof that you can&#8217;t believe the polls&#8230; 57% is a landslide in a thee-way race, second choice votes not withstanding. Huhne and Hughes evidently didn&#8217;t have a chance. Now can we finally get some kind of standardised form &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/sir-menzies\/\">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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lib-dems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","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=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}