{"id":9574,"date":"2014-11-07T09:21:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T16:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=9574"},"modified":"2014-11-03T09:27:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:27:02","slug":"democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=9574","title":{"rendered":"Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8220;The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.&#8221;<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Winston Churchill. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Churchill.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9575\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=9575\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Churchill.jpg?fit=255%2C334&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"255,334\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Churchill\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Churchill.jpg?fit=255%2C334&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9575\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Churchill.jpg?resize=255%2C334\" width=\"255\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Churchill.jpg?w=255&amp;ssl=1 255w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Churchill.jpg?resize=229%2C300&amp;ssl=1 229w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Churchill.jpg?resize=250%2C327&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I wrote this post on Monday before the election.\u00a0 I wonder how it will stand the test of four days time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.&#8221; Winston Churchill. I wrote this post on Monday before the election.\u00a0 I wonder how it will stand the test of four days time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-maxim","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-2uq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9576,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574\/revisions\/9576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}