{"id":1379,"date":"2009-04-16T08:33:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T07:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2009-04-16T08:33:24","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T07:33:24","slug":"the-indian-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"The Indian general election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India &#8211; the world&#8217;s largest democracy &#8211; starts its 17th general election today as explained <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/south_asia\/8000074.stm\">here<\/a>. For some perspective on the event, you might like to read my essay on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Indianpoliticalsystem.html\">&#8220;A Short Guide To The Indian Political System&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India &#8211; the world&#8217;s largest democracy &#8211; starts its 17th general election today as explained here. For some perspective on the event, you might like to read my essay on &#8220;A Short Guide To The Indian Political System&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","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=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}