{"id":2406,"date":"2009-09-07T14:12:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T14:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2009-09-07T14:12:15","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T14:12:15","slug":"apologies-for-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2009\/09\/apologies-for-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Apologies for absence&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All kinds of real-world excitement of late, including some very good news on the job front just this morning, has kept me off blogging for a bit.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;ve been informed that if anyone fancied leaving comments in support of what I&#8217;ve been doing online with this blog and <a href=\"http:\/\/ideasoneurope.eu\/\">elsewhere<\/a> over the last few years <a href=\"http:\/\/euractivawards09.blogactiv.eu\/2009\/06\/18\/j-clive-matthews\/\">over at the EurActiv Awards site<\/a>, then I&#8217;ll have a better chance of winning something or other.<\/p>\n<p>And while I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogossary.com\/define\/bleg\/\">blegging<\/a> support, you may also fancy putting in a positive comment or two to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysociety.org\/2009\/08\/10\/they-work-for-you-eu\/\">my suggestion<\/a> to the excellent public-spirited chaps at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysociety.org\/\">MySociety<\/a> that they develop an EU version of the invaluable democratic-accountability-boosting website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/\">TheyWorkForYou<\/a>. This could do more for EU accountability than any number of actual Commission initiatives in one swoop &#8211; without any kind of public funding &#8211; and so should be in the interest of anyone who wants more EU transparency, both europhiles and eurosceptics alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All kinds of real-world excitement of late, including some very good news on the job front just this morning, has kept me off blogging for a bit. However, I&#8217;ve been informed that if anyone fancied leaving comments in support of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2009\/09\/apologies-for-absence\/\">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":[13,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu","category-nosemonkey-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","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=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}