{"id":195,"date":"2004-11-04T16:46:22","date_gmt":"2004-11-04T16:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/11\/04\/the-us-better-off-than-britain\/"},"modified":"2004-11-04T16:46:22","modified_gmt":"2004-11-04T16:46:22","slug":"the-us-better-off-than-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/11\/the-us-better-off-than-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"The US: Better off than Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least the US has a proper two party system, and a strong opposition. We&#8217;re stuck with Blair until either the Tories or the Lib Dems can shake off their respective images as second-rate parties filled with delusional idiots. There isn&#8217;t a hope in hell of this country having an election as closely fought as the Bush\/Kerry presidential race for many years to come.  <\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s even more depressing than Bush getting a second term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least the US has a proper two party system, and a strong opposition. We&#8217;re stuck with Blair until either the Tories or the Lib Dems can shake off their respective images as second-rate parties filled with delusional idiots. There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/11\/the-us-better-off-than-britain\/\">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-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","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=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}