{"id":2065,"date":"2005-05-03T22:30:28","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T02:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2005-05-03T22:30:28","modified_gmt":"2005-05-04T02:30:28","slug":"the-price-of-democracy-in-the-uk-5042","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/03\/the-price-of-democracy-in-the-uk-5042\/","title":{"rendered":"The price of democracy in the UK: $50.42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>$50.42 is what it cost me to <a href=\"http:\/\/ups.com\/\">UPS<\/a> my UK ballot paper back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northlan.gov.uk\/\">North Lanarkshire Council<\/a> with any hope of it getting there on time. It really didn&#8217;t help that I only got my papers on Monday. <a href=\"http:\/\/canadapost.ca\/\">Canada Post<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purolator.com\/\">Purolator<\/a> were too slow or evil to get it there in time.<\/p>\n<p>Once the election is done, I&#8217;ll show you what a real ballot paper looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$50.42 is what it cost me to UPS my UK ballot paper back to North Lanarkshire Council with any hope of it getting there on time. It really didn&#8217;t help that I only got my papers on Monday. Canada Post and\/or Purolator were too slow or evil to get it there in time. Once the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[217,1959,547],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-uk","tag-ups","tag-vote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-xj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}