{"id":28,"date":"2001-06-07T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-06-07T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:owlfish.com,2004:colinweblog.20010607200000"},"modified":"2004-09-24T23:54:03","modified_gmt":"2004-09-24T23:54:03","slug":"07062001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2001\/06\/07062001\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a strange election for me tonight. My last (and from a voting point of view first) election was witnessed from York, and it was an amazing night of huge changes to the politics of the UK. This election has a large significance, mostly because of the rejection of what the Conservative party have become.<\/p>\n

The other things that make it significant is that the Liberal Democrats seem to have done pretty well, tactical voting has been very evident, turn-out has been very low, and very few seats indeed have changed hands.<\/p>\n

On a different front I recently read Stardust<\/a> by Neil Gaiman. It is definitely recommended, a fun evenings read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a strange election for me tonight. My last (and from a voting point of view first) election was witnessed from York, and it was an amazing night of huge changes to the politics of the UK. This election has a large significance, mostly because of the rejection of what the Conservative party have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}