{"id":10182,"date":"2012-12-11T19:29:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T18:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=10182"},"modified":"2012-12-11T19:29:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T18:29:17","slug":"politics-as-a-darlington-family-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=10182","title":{"rendered":"Politics as a Darlington family tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1974, I was a Labour candidate for the (then) constituency of Wanstead &amp; Woodford in the two General Elections of that year. In the first election, I came third. In the second election, I came second. I never ran for Parliament again.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, my daughter-in-law Emily Darlington was selected to be the Labour candidate for Milton Keynes North in the General Election expected in 2015 &#8211; \u00a0as reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miltonkeynes.co.uk\/news\/local\/labour-select-former-darling-advisor-emily-darlington-as-mk-north-candidate-1-4571732\">here<\/a>. Well done, Emily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1974, I was a Labour candidate for the (then) constituency of Wanstead &amp; Woodford in the two General Elections of that year. In the first election, I came third. In the second election, I came second. I never ran for Parliament again. This weekend, my daughter-in-law Emily Darlington was selected to be the Labour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10182","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=10182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10187,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10182\/revisions\/10187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}