{"id":1807,"date":"2014-05-10T10:48:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T08:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/cgi-bin\/weblog_basic\/index.php?p=1807"},"modified":"2014-05-10T10:51:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T08:51:35","slug":"a-splendid-mess-of-a-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/?p=1807","title":{"rendered":"A Splendid Mess of a Union!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last a positive and emotional view of the Union with Scotland by historian Simon Schama, writing in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/home\/europe\">The Financial Times <\/a><\/strong>of 9th May, 2014.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00ab\u00a0A splendid mess of a union should not be torn asunder<\/a><\/strong>.<br \/>\nScotland?s exit from Britain?s multicultural unity would be a disaster.\u00a0\u00bb\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>http:\/\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/085b4586-d5fc-11e3-a239-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz31IfNXNr8\">www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/085b4586-d5fc-11e3-a239-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz31IfNXNr8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last a positive and emotional view of the Union with Scotland by historian Simon Schama, writing in The Financial Times of 9th May, 2014. \u00ab\u00a0A splendid mess of a union should not be torn asunder. Scotland?s exit from Britain?s multicultural unity would be a disaster.\u00a0\u00bb http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/085b4586-d5fc-11e3-a239-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz31IfNXNr8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,220,203,123,1],"tags":[372,216,215],"class_list":["post-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-menzies-campbell-no-to-independence","category-mess-of-union","category-scottish-independence","category-scottish-referendum","category-welcome","tag-scottish-independence","tag-snp","tag-ukip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1812,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}