{"id":189379,"date":"2010-04-07T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/07\/gordon-brown-calls-election\/"},"modified":"2010-04-07T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T01:02:00","slug":"gordon-brown-calls-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/07\/gordon-brown-calls-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Brown Calls Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, the Tories have been slipping in the polls, and so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2010\/apr\/05\/gordon-brown-election-labour-manifesto\">Gordon Brown has called for a May 6 election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think that it still an uphill battle, but the Tories appear to be in, &#8220;Stepping on their own dick,&#8221; mode right now, and one poll shows the margin to be only 4%, so it is an opportune time for Labour to call an election.<\/p>\n<p>I think that it will be a close thing, but my record on such things is less than stellar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, the Tories have been slipping in the polls, and so Gordon Brown has called for a May 6 election. I think that it still an uphill battle, but the Tories appear to be in, &#8220;Stepping on their own dick,&#8221; mode right now, and one poll shows the margin to be only 4%, so it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,984],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189379"}],"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=189379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}