{"id":10348,"date":"2016-06-17T13:28:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T11:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10348"},"modified":"2016-06-17T13:33:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T11:33:16","slug":"a-shocking-political-murder-a-time-to-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10348","title":{"rendered":"A Shocking Political Murder: A Time To Pause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was until yesterday unthinkable in this country that one of the brightest of our young political stars, a passionate, eloquent campaigning politician, but also a devoted\u00a0Mum of two young\u00a0children\u00a0and\u00a0a\u00a0loving wife, who was already earmarked for future high office and leadership, could be shot to death in her constituency by an unhinged loner shouting \u00a0&#8216;Put Britain First&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it has happened. We unite to share the grief of this family in their unimaginable pain; we unite to condemn a crime few can comprehend; we unite to celebrate a very remarkable life cut short and we must unite to later ask the question of ourselves, what have we done to our country that such a thing can be?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But for now it is time to pause and reflect. Posts on this blog will resume when that has happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was until yesterday unthinkable in this country that one of the brightest of our young political stars, a passionate, eloquent campaigning politician, but also a devoted\u00a0Mum of two young\u00a0children\u00a0and\u00a0a\u00a0loving wife, who was already earmarked for future high office and leadership, could be shot to death in her constituency by an unhinged loner shouting \u00a0&#8216;Put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10352,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348\/revisions\/10352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}