{"id":450,"date":"2010-04-13T16:37:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T05:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=450"},"modified":"2010-04-13T16:37:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T05:37:33","slug":"platform-piece-on-conservative-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/platform-piece-on-conservative-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Platform piece on Conservative Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/why-im-not-keeping-quiet-about-politics-any-more\/\">my last post here<\/a> I wrote a piece for the blog ConservativeHome. Much along the lines of what I&#8217;ve already said but concentrating a little more on how a Welsh Valleys boy can consider voting Tory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I used to think your politics was something you inherited, like ginger hair or knobbly knees or a love of Marmite. Growing up I thought your political persuasion was a bit like a religious belief, that you could slice someone open and see the word Labour or Conservative or Liberal written on their inside.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/conservativehome.blogs.com\/platform\/2010\/04\/matthew-cashmore-why-this-son-of-the-welsh-valleys-is-now-voting-conservative.html\">Read the full article on Platform at Conservative Home.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from my last post here I wrote a piece for the blog ConservativeHome. Much along the lines of what I&#8217;ve already said but concentrating a little more on how a Welsh Valleys boy can consider voting Tory. I used to think your politics was something you inherited, like ginger hair or knobbly knees &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/platform-piece-on-conservative-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Platform piece on Conservative Home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}