{"id":391,"date":"2007-03-11T22:48:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T21:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=391"},"modified":"2007-03-11T22:48:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T21:48:21","slug":"it-takes-all-sorts-to-make-a-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"It takes all sorts to make a Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One is a government senator and member of the conservative Opus Dei organisation who wears the spiked metal chain around her thigh to recreate the suffering of Christ. The other is a drag artist who has not had a sex change operation but dresses and lives as a woman and represents the Reformed Communist Party. They are currently engaged in a very public row over proposed legislation to give many legal rights to unmarried couples, including homosexuals.<br \/>\nWhere could this be happening?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe answer, of course, is Italy.<br \/>\nThe first politician is Paola Binetti and her opponent is Luxuria (real name, Wladimiro Guadagno).<br \/>\nI&#8217;m totally with Luxeria on this one.<br \/>\nMore background <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/world\/story\/0,,2031106,00.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One is a government senator and member of the conservative Opus Dei organisation who wears the spiked metal chain around her thigh to recreate the suffering of Christ. The other is a drag artist who has not had a sex change operation but dresses and lives as a woman and represents the Reformed Communist Party. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","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\/391","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=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}