{"id":5773,"date":"2009-09-15T08:17:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T08:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5773"},"modified":"2009-09-15T08:17:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T08:17:35","slug":"glum-councillors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5773","title":{"rendered":"glum councillors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.localdemocracy.org.uk\/\">Local Democracy <\/a>blog, I find myself reading <a href=\"http:\/\/glumcouncillors.tumblr.com\/\">Glum Councillors<\/a>, a UK blog that &#8220;will doggedly collate images of councillors looking glum whilst pointing at holes in the road, wearing hard hats or presenting oversized cheques.&#8221; It lives up to its bold promise, providing an impressive collection of images ripped from local politicians&#8217; websites, along with trenchant commentary. For instance &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/7.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_kpm8qcDdUX1qa14h5o1_250.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Who says the Internet hasn&#8217;t transformed democracy? When I was a lad, you&#8217;d have to wait for years to see a real, live glum politician standing over a brick-and-mortar pothole. Now they&#8217;re all just a few clicks away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Local Democracy blog, I find myself reading Glum Councillors, a UK blog that &#8220;will doggedly collate images of councillors looking glum whilst pointing at holes in the road, wearing hard hats or presenting oversized cheques.&#8221; It lives up to its bold promise, providing an impressive collection of images ripped from local politicians&#8217; websites, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}