{"id":1373,"date":"2006-11-15T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T10:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/15\/116358675585043594\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T08:47:26","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T08:47:26","slug":"id-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/id-unemployment\/","title":{"rendered":"ID and unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>State Opening of Parliament today &#8211; a good day to bury bad news, so keep your eyes peeled.Already, we have: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/6149830.stm\">UK unemployment at seven year high<\/a> &#8211; see the Office for National Statistics for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statistics.gov.uk\/cci\/nugget.asp?id=12\">the full report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, there was also a handy &#8220;web chat&#8221; with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.number-10.gov.uk\/output\/Page10364.asp\">the civil servant in charge of ID cards<\/a> published late last night on the 10 Downing Street site. Lots of quality astroturfing, plus the priceless gem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;ID Cards will reduce the threat of the Surveillance Society and help safeguard civil liberties&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keep an eye on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegovernmentsays.com\">The Government Says<\/a> today, chaps&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Talking of ID Cards &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/petitions.pm.gov.uk\/IDcards\/\">sign this<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chickyog.net\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Opening of Parliament today &#8211; a good day to bury bad news, so keep your eyes peeled.Already, we have: UK unemployment at seven year high &#8211; see the Office for National Statistics for the full report. Oh, there was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/id-unemployment\/\">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":[4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-civil-liberties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","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=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}