{"id":121,"date":"2002-11-05T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-05T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2002\/11\/politics\/"},"modified":"2002-11-05T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-05T22:09:00","slug":"politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2002\/11\/politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;m on some kind of politics &#8220;kick&#8221; at the moment.  I don&#8217;t know whether it&#8217;s because I watched three episodes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/The_West_Wing\/index.html\">The West Wing<\/a> at the weekend (catching up &#8211; and discovering that if I record the late night repeat on E4, I get it commercial free), just reading about IDS and the Conservatives digging themselves deeper and deeper into the mire (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/2403923.stm\">&#8220;unite or die&#8221;<\/a>), or watching <i>Journeys with George<\/i> the other night (see <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/000053.html\">previous<\/a> entry).<br \/>\nAnyway, today is the day of the mid-terms in the States, and it looks very interesting and very tight.  Early indications at the time of writing seem to make it too close to call, or according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/\">Channel 4 news <\/a>earlier, slightly in favour of the Republicans, but it seems that following the 2000 catastrophe, they&#8217;re all being a little slower making their predictions.  Probably as well. Let&#8217;s just keep our fingers crossed that the Democrats can stop the Republicans taking control of the senate.<br \/>\nIn the meantime, I&#8217;m really happy that today I got tickets to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rlff.com\/db_world02\/cinema.cgi\/interimhomepage\/\">London Film Festival<\/a> screening of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bowlingforcolumbine.com\/\">Bowling for Columbine <\/a>this Sunday.  With any luck Michael Moore should be there to introduce it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;m on some kind of politics &#8220;kick&#8221; at the moment. I don&#8217;t know whether it&#8217;s because I watched three episodes of The West Wing at the weekend (catching up &#8211; and discovering that if I record the late night repeat on E4, I get it commercial free), just reading about IDS and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}