{"id":77219,"date":"2019-01-24T14:46:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/24\/alex-salmond-profile-architect-of-the-snps-rise-to-power\/"},"modified":"2019-01-24T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:46:08","slug":"alex-salmond-profile-architect-of-the-snps-rise-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=77219","title":{"rendered":"Alex Salmond profile: architect of the SNP&#039;s rise to power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News of the former first minister\u2019s arrest will send ripples through the party he rebuiltAlex Salmond is one of the most significant political figures of recent British history, whose tenure as first minister of Scotland transformed the debate about the UK\u2019s constitutional future.In less than a decade, Salmond succeeded in normalising the question of Scottish independence, rebuilt the Scottish National party into an electoral machine that has convincingly replaced Labour as Scotland\u2019s dominant political force, and laid the groundwork for significant new powers for its devolved government and parliament. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/jan\/24\/alex-salmond-profile-architect-of-the-snp-rise-to-power\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Salmond profile: architect of the SNP&#039;s rise to power<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News of the former first minister\u2019s arrest will send ripples through the party he rebuiltAlex Salmond is one of the most significant political figures of recent British history, whose tenure as first minister of Scotland transformed the debate about the UK\u2019s constitutional future.In less than a decade, Salmond succeeded in [&hellip;]<\/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-77219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77219","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=77219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}