{"id":837,"date":"2008-02-24T15:30:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T14:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=837"},"modified":"2008-02-24T15:30:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T14:30:25","slug":"the-american-presidential-election-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"The American presidential election (21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if the American presidential election was not already exciting enough &#8211; with the Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton battling it out for the Democratic nomination and John McCain still being harried by Mick Huckabee &#8211; today 73 year old <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ralph_Nader\">Ralph Nader<\/a> announced his candidacy for the fifth time [more information <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/7261670.stm\">here<\/a>].<br \/>\nNader is renown as a consumer activist and consumer empowerment is something in which I believe passionately. But Nader may have caused Al Gore to lose to George Bush in 2000 and I would hate to think that there was a risk of Nader&#8217;s intervention this year denying the presidency to Obama and handing it to McCain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if the American presidential election was not already exciting enough &#8211; with the Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton battling it out for the Democratic nomination and John McCain still being harried by Mick Huckabee &#8211; today 73 year old Ralph Nader announced his candidacy for the fifth time [more information here]. Nader is renown [&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-837","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\/837","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=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}