{"id":181924,"date":"2016-02-09T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/09\/this-has-gotta-hurt-2\/"},"modified":"2016-02-09T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T01:05:00","slug":"this-has-gotta-hurt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/09\/this-has-gotta-hurt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This has Gotta Hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mother of British Prime Minister has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/david-camerons-mother-signs-petition-against-uk-tory-cuts\/\">signed a petition against her son&#8217;s cuts of children&#8217;s services<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Among the 10,000 names on a petition against planned cuts to children\u2019s services by a local council is a name that will cause embarrassment to British Prime Minister David Cameron \u2014 his mum.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mary Cameron, 81, told the Daily Mirror newspaper that she had signed a petition to save children\u2019s centers earmarked for closure by Oxfordshire county council, which is run by her son\u2019s Conservative Party.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cMy name is on the petition but I don\u2019t want to discuss this any further,\u201d Mary Cameron, a former magistrate, said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The petition says: \u201cOur children\u2019s centers are a lifeline to new parents who rely on locally accessible advice and support at a time when it is most needed. Cutting these essential services would leave families vulnerable and isolated and fail an entire generation of children.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mary Cameron has intervened in her son\u2019s career before. In 2013, she was asked about her son\u2019s support for gay marriage despite opposition from Tory grassroots supporters, and reportedly replied: \u201cI know, but David just won\u2019t be told.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From his mother?&nbsp; That&#8217;s harsh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mother of British Prime Minister has signed a petition against her son&#8217;s cuts of children&#8217;s services: Among the 10,000 names on a petition against planned cuts to children\u2019s services by a local council is a name that will cause embarrassment to British Prime Minister David Cameron \u2014 his mum.Mary Cameron, 81, told the Daily &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,984,1157,978,1086,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-europe","category-parenting","category-politics","category-social-safety-net","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}