{"id":14191,"date":"2014-04-04T12:17:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T11:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14191"},"modified":"2014-04-04T12:17:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T11:17:45","slug":"the-good-news-the-most-democratic-month-in-world-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14191","title":{"rendered":"The good news: the most democratic month in world history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In terms of sheer numbers, this April will be the most democratic month the world has ever seen as national elections take place in half a dozen countries with total electorates of more than one billion people \u2013 in India, Afghanistan, Hungary, Indonesia, Algeria and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Check out a summary of the elections <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/apr\/03\/april-2014-six-countries-one-billion-people-the-worlds-most-democratic-month\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The largest election will be in India and I have written a short guide to the Indian political system <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Indianpoliticalsystem.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In terms of sheer numbers, this April will be the most democratic month the world has ever seen as national elections take place in half a dozen countries with total electorates of more than one billion people \u2013 in India, Afghanistan, Hungary, Indonesia, Algeria and Iraq. Check out a summary of the elections here. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14191","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\/14191","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=14191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14194,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions\/14194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}