{"id":1388,"date":"2009-04-22T08:10:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T07:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2009-04-22T08:10:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T07:10:36","slug":"40-years-in-the-labour-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"40 years in the Labour Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years ago today, I joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labour.org.uk\/\">British Labour Party<\/a>. At the time I was aged 20 and a university student.<br \/>\nI wrote in my diary on 22 April 1969: &#8220;&#8221;Today, after about 18 months of slowly drifting Leftwards, I joined the Labour Party at a time when <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/In_Place_of_Strife\">&#8216;In Place Of Strife&#8217;<\/a> is causing just that throughout the Labour movement.&#8221;<br \/>\nYou can read the story of my political journey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FAQ.html#Politics\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years ago today, I joined the British Labour Party. At the time I was aged 20 and a university student. I wrote in my diary on 22 April 1969: &#8220;&#8221;Today, after about 18 months of slowly drifting Leftwards, I joined the Labour Party at a time when &#8216;In Place Of Strife&#8217; is causing just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","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=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}