{"id":266,"date":"2005-05-05T15:58:18","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T15:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2007-02-28T17:27:46","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T17:27:46","slug":"making-a-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Making a mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I didn&#8217;t get any replies to <a href=\".\/?p=255\">the email<\/a> which I sent to the main candidates standing to represent the parliamentary constituency in which I live. So I was left to decide for myself from various sources available to me. The most useful document was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christian.org.uk\/election2005\/election_briefing.pdf\">an election brief<\/a> published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christian.org.uk\/\">the Christian Institute<\/a> and showed the party policies on morality issues amongst other things, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/\">the BBC<\/a> also produced a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/vote_2005\/issues\/default.stm\">useful guide<\/a> detailing the parties&#8217; policies on the popular issues. Armed with this information, I decided who I would vote for, wandered down the polling station and made my mark. All there&#8217;s left to do now is sit back and watch the election coverage and see what <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/shared\/vote2005\/swingometer\/html\/labcon.stm\">Peter Snow&#8217;s Swingometer<\/a> does this election. Saying that, I might just lie down and have a nap as I&#8217;m knackered from just going out to vote &#8211; I think I&#8217;ve got a viral infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I didn&#8217;t get any replies to the email which I sent to the main candidates standing to represent the parliamentary constituency in which I live. So I was left to decide for myself from various sources available to me. The most useful document was an election brief published by the Christian Institute and showed&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=266\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}