{"id":14284,"date":"2014-04-11T17:34:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T16:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14284"},"modified":"2014-04-11T17:34:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T16:34:21","slug":"how-much-has-changed-in-british-politics-over-the-last-two-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14284","title":{"rendered":"How much has changed in British politics over the last two centuries?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am currently reading a book called “Perilous Question”<\/a> – subtitled “The drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832” – by Antonia Fraser.<\/p>\n

“A little girl asked her mother, ‘Mamma, are Tories born wicked, or do they grow wicked afterwards?’<\/p>\n
To which her mother replied, ‘They are born wicked and grow worse.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am currently reading a book called “Perilous Question” – subtitled “The drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832” – by Antonia Fraser. She quotes a tale of the times: “A little girl asked her mother, ‘Mamma, are Tories born wicked, or do they grow wicked afterwards?’ To which her mother replied, ‘They are born […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14284","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=14284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14286,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14284\/revisions\/14286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}