{"id":3861,"date":"2010-10-11T23:08:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T22:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3861"},"modified":"2010-10-12T15:57:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T14:57:06","slug":"the-cull-of-the-quangos-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3861","title":{"rendered":"The cull of the quangos (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Mayo was the last Chief Executive of the National Consumer Council and the first Chief Executive of Consumer Focus as well as a lifelong advocate of the consumer interest.\u00a0 So he is understandably shocked &#8211; as I am &#8211; if bodies like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfocus.org.uk\/\">Consumer Focus<\/a> are to be closed down by the Coalition Government. You can read his blog posting <a href=\"http:\/\/edmayo.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/09\/consumer-focus-and-office-of-fair-trading-under-threat\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Mayo was the last Chief Executive of the National Consumer Council and the first Chief Executive of Consumer Focus as well as a lifelong advocate of the consumer interest.\u00a0 So he is understandably shocked &#8211; as I am &#8211; if bodies like Consumer Focus are to be closed down by the Coalition Government. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861","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=3861"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3865,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions\/3865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}