{"id":1353,"date":"2009-06-30T22:06:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T22:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2009\/06\/30\/1353\/"},"modified":"2009-06-30T22:06:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T22:06:21","slug":"balls-accused-of-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/balls-accused-of-lying\/","title":{"rendered":"Balls accused of lying"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/downingstreet\/3466257068\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3537\/3466257068_92931c925c_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/downingstreet\/3466257068\/\">Every Child a Reader Reception<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/downingstreet\/\">Downing Street<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Do read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/coffeehouse\/3725688\/talking-balls.thtml\">this blog posting<\/a> on The Spector&#8217;s Coffee House blog.<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier blog posting, they had accused Ed Balls of lying, and for once the government didn&#8217;t send out its spin doctors:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ed Balls has just called me up about my post from this morning, hopping mad. He instructed me to &#8220;take that post down now&#8221;. I thought he was joking: has there been some change to the constitution where ministers now have power over the media? But he was deadly serious. [&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Child a Reader Reception Originally uploaded by Downing Street Do read this blog posting on The Spector&#8217;s Coffee House blog. In an earlier blog posting, they had accused Ed Balls of lying, and for once the government didn&#8217;t send out its spin doctors: Ed Balls has just called me up about my post from this morning, hopping mad. He instructed me to &#8220;take that post down now&#8221;. I thought he was joking: has there been some change to the constitution where ministers now have power over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}