{"id":1685,"date":"2008-01-30T09:56:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T09:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2008-02-02T13:01:48","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T13:01:48","slug":"the-eu-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/01\/the-eu-in-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little something from me <a href=\"http:\/\/ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net\/2008\/01\/29\/the-year-ahead-eu-awaits-two-new-presidents\/\">over at Our Kingdom<\/a>. Looking at the possible impact of the US and Russian presidential elections on the EU and UK in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and while I&#8217;m checking in, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/7214125.stm\">yay for John McCain!<\/a> I like John McCain. He may be wrong on a number of issues, but I like him nonetheless. Plus his name&#8217;s very similar to that of one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_mcclane\">all-time great movie action heroes<\/a>, which can&#8217;t be a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>Again, apologies for lack of posting. This should all change next week, I hope. Along with a fresh install of the blog and a design overhaul, necessitated by those bastard spammers having compromised everything. (A shame, as I rather like the current design, but still&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little something from me over at Our Kingdom. Looking at the possible impact of the US and Russian presidential elections on the EU and UK in 2008. Oh, and while I&#8217;m checking in, yay for John McCain! I like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/01\/the-eu-in-2008\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[185,178,38,44],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zzzzzzz","tag-elections","tag-eu","tag-russia","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","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=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}