{"id":43774,"date":"2018-06-04T00:23:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T22:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/04\/government-urged-to-scrap-aposundemocratic-farceapos-of-electing-hereditary-peers-where-tiny-clique-of-voters-choose-successor\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T00:23:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T22:23:03","slug":"government-urged-to-scrap-aposundemocratic-farceapos-of-electing-hereditary-peers-where-tiny-clique-of-voters-choose-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=43774","title":{"rendered":"Government urged to scrap &amp;apos;undemocratic farce&amp;apos; of electing hereditary peers where tiny clique of voters choose successor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The public should decide who votes on our laws \u2013 not a tiny clique of aristocrats,&#8217; say campaigners<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/hereditary-peers-house-lords-election-vote-democracy-a8379121.html\" target=\"_blank\">Government urged to scrap &amp;apos;undemocratic farce&amp;apos; of electing hereditary peers where tiny clique of voters choose successor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The public should decide who votes on our laws \u2013 not a tiny clique of aristocrats,&#8217; say campaigners Via: Government urged to scrap &amp;apos;undemocratic farce&amp;apos; of electing hereditary peers where tiny clique of voters choose successor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}