{"id":1062,"date":"2006-04-29T23:04:11","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T03:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2006-04-29T23:04:11","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T03:04:11","slug":"power-apparently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"Power, apparently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> was reading (and followed before) the latest news items about the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4959164.stm\">UK&#8217;s Prescott affair<\/a> (in short: deputy prime minister had a lover) and for some kind of reason, it reminded me of the last days of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Major\">Major government<\/a>, when several scandals rocked UK. Eventually, the Conservatives lost the house to the Labour party.\n<\/p>\n<p>Power corrupts apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading (and followed before) the latest news items about the UK&#8217;s Prescott affair (in short: deputy prime minister had a lover) and for some kind of reason, it reminded me of the last days of the Major government, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1062\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}