{"id":10096,"date":"2012-11-25T11:57:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T10:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=10096"},"modified":"2012-11-25T11:59:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T10:59:16","slug":"the-rise-and-rise-of-stella-creasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=10096","title":{"rendered":"The rise and rise of Stella Creasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On an earlier version of this blog, I tipped Barack Obama as a possible future US President while he was still fighting for a Senate seat in Illinois. so I hope that readers of this blog were watching when, almost two years ago, I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4524\">a posting<\/a> suggesting that Stella Creasy, then a newly-elected MP for Walthamstow, was a possible future leader of the British Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s &#8220;Observer&#8221; newspaper devotes an entire page to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theobserver\/2012\/nov\/25\/stella-creasy-labour-wonga\">a profile<\/a> of the Labour politician. It is great to see a parliamentarian who is intelligent, thoughtful and fluent and has conviction. Even better that she is a woman and a member of the party I support. Go, Stella, go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an earlier version of this blog, I tipped Barack Obama as a possible future US President while he was still fighting for a Senate seat in Illinois. so I hope that readers of this blog were watching when, almost two years ago, I did a posting suggesting that Stella Creasy, then a newly-elected MP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10096"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10100,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096\/revisions\/10100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}