{"id":14517,"date":"2014-05-06T07:41:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T06:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14517"},"modified":"2014-05-06T07:41:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T06:41:19","slug":"south-africa-goes-to-the-polls-tomorrow-so-here-is-a-short-guide-to-the-countrys-political-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14517","title":{"rendered":"South Africa goes to the polls tomorrow, so here is a short guide to the country&#8217;s political system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa is the 12th country &#8211; the first in Africa -about which I have chosen to write a short guide to its political system. You can read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/SouthAfricanpoliticalsystem\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I will update it when the results of tomorrow&#8217;s general election are known.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in the political systems of other major democratic countries, you will find some useful essays<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/2010\/currentaffairs.shtml\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa is the 12th country &#8211; the first in Africa -about which I have chosen to write a short guide to its political system. You can read it here. I will update it when the results of tomorrow&#8217;s general election are known. If you are interested in the political systems of other major democratic [&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-14517","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\/14517","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=14517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14538,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14517\/revisions\/14538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}