{"id":7112,"date":"2007-06-23T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2015-03-30T11:45:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T11:45:03","slug":"on-britains-parliamentary-elections-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=7112","title":{"rendered":"On Britain&#8217;s Parliamentary Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Election time in the UK.  One Prime Minister is out.  And now Parliamentary elections are on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a horse in this race as I don&#8217;t live in Britain, but I do have to say.  I like what Harold Saxon has to say.  The man&#8217;s a visionary.  He thinks outside the box.  He wants Britain to be a world power again.  He&#8217;s even taking seriously the possibility that there&#8217;s life beyond this Earth.  Perhaps even life on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Also&#8211;and this will sound <i>completely<\/i> shallow&#8211;Saxon&#8217;s wife Lucy is <i>quite<\/i> attractive.  Yes, it&#8217;s a completely <i>useless<\/i> reason to vote for a candidate (and maybe it&#8217;s just my thing for redheads), but maybe we <i>should<\/i> take candidates&#8217; spouses into consideration in the ballot box.  On the other hand, it&#8217;s not like Laura Bush has been an anchor on her husband&#8217;s career, which shows there&#8217;s neither taste nor judgment in the American electorate&#8230; :\/<\/p>\n<p>What was I saying?  Oh, <i>yes<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Vote Saxon, my British cousins.  The man&#8217;s got vision.  The man&#8217;s got mojo.  Vote for Saxon and his party.  Take Britain to the next level.<\/p>\n<p>And no, this isn&#8217;t a paid political ad.  I really do think Saxon is the right man for the job.  He&#8217;s got my endorsement, such as it is. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Vote Saxon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election time in the UK. One Prime Minister is out. And now Parliamentary elections are on the horizon. I don&#8217;t have a horse in this race as I don&#8217;t live in Britain, but I do have to say. I like what Harold Saxon has to say. The man&#8217;s a visionary. He thinks outside the box.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=7112\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Britain&#8217;s Parliamentary Elections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[326,1167,1168],"class_list":["post-7112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-harold-saxon","tag-prime-minister","tag-vote-saxon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}