{"id":438,"date":"2007-08-14T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=438"},"modified":"2007-08-14T23:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T22:14:00","slug":"a-national-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/a-national-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"A national conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/saltire-797211.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" width=\"35%\" src=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/saltire-797211.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Alex Salmond has today launched the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotland.gov.uk\/topics\/a-national-conversation\">national conversation<\/a>&#8221; about Scotland&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend reading the whitepaper itself (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotland.gov.uk\/Publications\/2007\/08\/13103747\/1\">HTML<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotland.gov.uk\/Resource\/Doc\/194791\/0052321.pdf\">PDF<\/a>).  It&#8217;s a technical political document, so not a very easy or fun read for most people, but it&#8217;s full of important information that anybody who wants to participate in the discussion should be aware of.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be interesting to see whether the Gang of Three (Labour, LibDems and Tories) will participate in this conversation or set up their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Salmond has today launched the &#8220;national conversation&#8221; about Scotland&#8217;s future. I recommend reading the whitepaper itself (HTML or PDF). It&#8217;s a technical political document, so not a very easy or fun read for most people, but it&#8217;s full of important information that anybody who wants to participate in the discussion should be aware of. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see whether the Gang of Three (Labour, LibDems and Tories) will participate in this conversation or set up their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,130,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-politics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","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=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}