{"id":469335,"date":"2010-03-24T17:35:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T21:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.wombles.org.uk:\/\/e6945ddda9446ef00828b3dffd70d934"},"modified":"2010-03-24T17:35:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T21:35:06","slug":"all-elections-are-a-joke-let%e2%80%99s-treat-them-with-the-contempt-they-deserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/469335","title":{"rendered":"All elections are a joke: let\u2019s treat them with the contempt they deserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from yorkshireanarchist, 23 March 2010: &#8220;Oh God it\u2019s another General Erection! We know \u2013 all elections are a waste of time. Politicians of all parties fill their pockets, you couldn\u2019t tell their policies apart without a microscope, the power of the rich, the global corporations and financiers continues merrily whoever is elected; well-meaning do-gooders get elected, then become sucked in or ground down by the weight of the system&#8230;&#8221;&nbsp;<span class='read-more'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wombles.org.uk\/article2010035943.php\">more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from yorkshireanarchist, 23 March 2010: &#8220;Oh God it\u2019s another General Erection! We know \u2013 all elections are a waste of time. Politicians of all parties fill their pockets, you couldn\u2019t tell their policies apart without a microscope, the power of the rich, the global corporations and financiers continues merrily whoever is elected; well-meaning do-gooders get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}