{"id":974,"date":"2005-12-08T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/12\/08\/113403153370411965\/"},"modified":"2005-12-08T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T08:40:00","slug":"113403153370411965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/12\/113403153370411965\/","title":{"rendered":"113403153370411965"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>Note to The Guardian: There is a difference between <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/conservatives\/story\/0,9061,1661762,00.html\">things one writes in a News of the World column<\/a> and what one does when shadow foreign secretary. One involves populist attempts to appeal to that kind of lowest common denominator that isn&#8217;t interested or knowledgable about politics; the other involves convincing the general, swing-voter public that, from a position of knowledge, you share their attitude to international relations.<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230; Shit&#8230; That should read &#8220;I HOPE there&#8217;s a difference&#8230;&#8221; What ARE the Tories up to?<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note to The Guardian: There is a difference between things one writes in a News of the World column and what one does when shadow foreign secretary. One involves populist attempts to appeal to that kind of lowest common denominator &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/12\/113403153370411965\/\">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-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}