{"id":24503,"date":"2019-04-22T13:18:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T12:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24503"},"modified":"2019-04-22T13:18:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T12:18:09","slug":"50-years-ago-today-i-joined-the-labour-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24503","title":{"rendered":"50 years ago today, I joined the Labour Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I guess that I&#8217;m tribal in my politics: I&#8217;ve never missed an opportunity to vote, I&#8217;ve never voted anything other than Labour, and I now have half a century of continuous membership of the Labour Party. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Party has been through many travails in that time and indeed is going through great difficulties now with Corbynism, anti-semitism and Brexit &#8211; but I&#8217;m sticking with it as the only possibility of a fairer government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can check out my political evolution <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FAQ.html#Politics\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that I&#8217;m tribal in my politics: I&#8217;ve never missed an opportunity to vote, I&#8217;ve never voted anything other than Labour, and I now have half a century of continuous membership of the Labour Party. The Party has been through many travails in that time and indeed is going through great difficulties now with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24503","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=24503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24505,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24503\/revisions\/24505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}