{"id":17571,"date":"2015-06-21T12:26:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T11:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17571"},"modified":"2015-06-21T12:26:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T11:26:52","slug":"a-short-guide-to-how-the-european-union-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17571","title":{"rendered":"A short guide to how the European Union works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my web site, I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/2010\/currentaffairs.shtml\">short guides to the political systems of 13 countries<\/a>. These are among the most popular pages on my site and I receive appreciative comments from readers around the world.<\/p>\n<p>One of them recently suggested that I do something similar for the European Union although, of course, the EU is not a state. So I have created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/EU\">&#8220;A short guide to how the European Union works&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Like all the essays on my web site, it is a work in progress and I will regularly expand and update it. So feel free to challenge or comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my web site, I have short guides to the political systems of 13 countries. These are among the most popular pages on my site and I receive appreciative comments from readers around the world. One of them recently suggested that I do something similar for the European Union although, of course, the EU is [&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-17571","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\/17571","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=17571"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17575,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17571\/revisions\/17575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}