{"id":1311,"date":"2016-06-22T20:35:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T19:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewjohnson.me.uk\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2016-06-22T20:35:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T19:35:51","slug":"decision-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2016\/06\/22\/decision-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow I will be voting for the UK to remain a member of the European Union. While I find the economic and political arguments for Remain persuasive,\u00a0ultimately I&#8217;ll be doing this because peace and cooperation are necessary preconditions for progress and our collective futures.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to tell you how to vote. But, if you find yourself genuinely undecided, I offer a suggestion: don&#8217;t abstain. Instead, ask a child or young person in your life how they would vote if they were able, and then vote <em>for\u00a0them<\/em> and their future. And vote with hope for that future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow I will be voting for the UK to remain a member of the European Union. While I find the economic and political arguments for Remain persuasive,\u00a0ultimately I&#8217;ll be doing this because peace and cooperation are necessary preconditions for progress and our collective futures. I&#8217;m not going to tell you how to vote. But, if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2016\/06\/22\/decision-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Decision Time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[24,26,29],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-referendum","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}