{"id":700260,"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.com\/index\/700260","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":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Waw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}