{"id":846,"date":"2005-09-30T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/30\/112809248904602451\/"},"modified":"2005-09-30T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T15:56:00","slug":"112809248904602451","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/112809248904602451\/","title":{"rendered":"112809248904602451"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-1805380,00.html\">A Labour minister only acting after something&#8217;s appeared in the press?<\/a> Surely not! Charles Clarke (slightly paraphrased):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The article which appeared in today\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds Sun newspaper about something about which before now I couldn&#8217;t care less has highlighted a number of important issues, most notably that this has now got media attention and so I need to look as if I give a shit and am doing something, or else our ratings will drop even further than they did yesterday after our goons were caught on camera manhandling a pensioner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have today asked my department to look at the details of this particular case and some of the broader issues that it raises &#8211; most notably how our PR department didn&#8217;t pick up on this sooner and thus save us from having to scrabble around like morons while we desperately try and cover our arses.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Labour minister only acting after something&#8217;s appeared in the press? Surely not! Charles Clarke (slightly paraphrased): &#8220;The article which appeared in today\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds Sun newspaper about something about which before now I couldn&#8217;t care less has highlighted a number of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/112809248904602451\/\">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-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","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=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}