{"id":215,"date":"2010-08-22T18:18:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T07:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/?p=215"},"modified":"2010-08-22T18:18:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T07:18:49","slug":"indecision-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"indecision 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 190px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/13370398@N08\/4912010128\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ballot papers\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4074\/4912010128_27a4ecc725_m.jpg\" alt=\"Ballot papers\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; text-align: right;\">Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/13370398@N08\/4912010128\" target=\"_blank\">haikugirlOz<\/a> via Flickr<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The election appears to be over. Well, the voting part of it. But now we&#8217;re faced with a hung parliament and the horse trading with the independents and Greens as one or the other major party seeks to form a government. It suggests to me that the label assigned by the Sydney Morning Herald (and others) of &#8220;Decision 2010&#8221; ought to be replaced by &#8220;Indecision 2010.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It also reminded me just how difficult voting is \u2014 there are so many candidates I&#8217;d really like to be able to place last on the ballot papers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by haikugirlOz via Flickr The election appears to be over. Well, the voting part of it. But now we&#8217;re faced with a hung parliament and the horse trading with the independents and Greens as one or the other major party seeks to form a government. It suggests to me that the label assigned by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}