{"id":5670,"date":"2012-06-21T23:04:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T22:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=5670"},"modified":"2012-06-21T23:04:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T22:04:50","slug":"disengaging-from-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/disengaging-from-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Disengaging from the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ul_marga\/234115198\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/95\/234115198_51b095a206_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\/ul_marga\/234115198\/\">Union Jack<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ul_marga\/\">ul_Marga<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Until about a year ago, my beloved wife and I used to watch Andrew Marr every Sunday morning, and as any regular reader of this blog can witness, I have often blogged about UK affairs.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;ve noticed I&#8217;ve been gradually withdrawing over the past year, as it has become clear that there will be a referendum on Scottish independence soon.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, when I watch a story on Andrew Marr about reforming the House of Lords, or I read an article in an English newspaper about the Falklands, I increasing feel that it&#8217;s foreign news.  Obviously it&#8217;s foreign news from a place I know well, so I might glance through the article, in the same way as I do still pay some attention to what&#8217;s happening in Denmark.  However, I&#8217;m not really interested: It&#8217;s their news, not mine.<\/p>\n<p>I really hope Scotland will vote Yes to independence, because it&#8217;d be really hard to reengage with UK politics again after a three-year hiatus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Jack Originally uploaded by ul_Marga Until about a year ago, my beloved wife and I used to watch Andrew Marr every Sunday morning, and as any regular reader of this blog can witness, I have often blogged about UK affairs. However, I&#8217;ve noticed I&#8217;ve been gradually withdrawing over the past year, as it has become clear that there will be a referendum on Scottish independence soon. Basically, when I watch a story on Andrew Marr about reforming the House of Lords, or I read an article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,130,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5670","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\/5670","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=5670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}