{"id":17341,"date":"2015-05-16T13:05:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T12:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17341"},"modified":"2015-05-16T13:05:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T12:05:51","slug":"should-the-north-of-england-become-part-of-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17341","title":{"rendered":"Should the North of England become part of Scotland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, it&#8217;s a crazy idea &#8211; but tens of thousands apparently support the bizarre notion as you can see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/the-uk-government-allow-the-north-of-england-to-secede-from-the-uk-and-join-scotland\">here<\/a>. I have relatives in Scotland, I was brought up in Manchester, and I live in London. I want to see a United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Around the world, people think that redrawing boundaries solves political and economic problems. It rarely does. Instead of changing boundaries, we need to change attitudes as I have argued in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nationhood.html\">this essay<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, it&#8217;s a crazy idea &#8211; but tens of thousands apparently support the bizarre notion as you can see here. I have relatives in Scotland, I was brought up in Manchester, and I live in London. I want to see a United Kingdom. Around the world, people think that redrawing boundaries solves political and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17341","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=17341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17343,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17341\/revisions\/17343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}