{"id":676,"date":"2008-07-07T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=676"},"modified":"2008-07-07T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T21:53:00","slug":"glasgow-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/glasgow-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow East"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gee01\/409833495\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/149\/409833495_c74bc29860_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gee01\/409833495\/\">dalmarnock<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/gee01\/\">_gee_<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>Fraser Nelson, a conservative journalist whose father was born in Glasgow East, has written a couple of good background pieces about that place (which is, of course, where a by-election will soon take place).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/the-magazine\/the-week\/810976\/glasgow-east-is-browns-dirty-little-secret-a-hideous-costly-social-experiment-gone-wrong.thtml\">This article<\/a> from The Spectator is a good introduction from a political perspective.<\/p>\n<p>For a wider and more historical view, read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/coffeehouse\/820841\/scottish-sectarianism.thtml\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend reading both.  People from outwith Scotland might be somewhat shocked by some of it&#8230;<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dalmarnock Originally uploaded by _gee_ Fraser Nelson, a conservative journalist whose father was born in Glasgow East, has written a couple of good background pieces about that place (which is, of course, where a by-election will soon take place). This article from The Spectator is a good introduction from a political perspective. For a wider and more historical view, read this one. I highly recommend reading both. People from outwith Scotland might be somewhat shocked by some of it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,159,130,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-en","category-politics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","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=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}