{"id":23263,"date":"2015-08-31T10:52:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T14:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23263"},"modified":"2015-08-31T10:52:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T14:52:15","slug":"new-eligibility-criteria-for-politicians-and-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/new-eligibility-criteria-for-politicians-and-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"New eligibility criteria for politicians and voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-3215709\/PETER-HITCHENS-Fixing-Lords-easy-just-rid-politicians.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Hitchens<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nobody under the age of 55 should be able to stand for election, and nobody under the age of 30 should be able to vote in those elections. Nobody under 55 knows anything much about life. Nobody under 30 knows anything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would add one: anyone unable to formulate a sentence without using the word \u201clike\u201d is incapable of coherent thought and should be ineligible to vote &#8211; that rules out everyone under 40 and many under 60.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Peter Hitchens: Nobody under the age of 55 should be able to stand for election, and nobody under the age of 30 should be able to vote in those elections. Nobody under 55 knows anything much about life. Nobody &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/new-eligibility-criteria-for-politicians-and-voters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[1220],"class_list":["post-23263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nothing-in-particular","tag-peter-hitchens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}