{"id":22767,"date":"2019-04-24T09:50:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T23:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=22767"},"modified":"2019-04-24T09:50:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T23:50:12","slug":"searching-for-democracy-democracy-not-found-sorry-no-democracy-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=22767","title":{"rendered":"Searching For Democracy&#8230; &#8230;Democracy Not Found. Sorry, No Democracy Here."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"836\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Colorado_Empty_Seats-1.jpg\" alt=\"Searching For Democracy... ...Democracy Not Found. Sorry, No Democracy Here.\" class=\"wp-image-22768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Colorado_Empty_Seats-1.jpg 836w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Colorado_Empty_Seats-1-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Colorado_Empty_Seats-1-768x882.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is EXACTLY what happened with the No Jab No Pay Senate hearing &#8211; thousands wrote in opposition to the legislation including medical bodies-but it was predetermined that Parliament would vote the way their pHarmaceutical masters had told them to vote &#8211; regardless of the will of the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is EXACTLY what happened with the No Jab No Pay Senate hearing &#8211; thousands wrote in opposition to the legislation including medical bodies-but it was predetermined that Parliament would vote the way their pHarmaceutical masters had told them to vote &#8211; regardless of the will of the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22769,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22767\/revisions\/22769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}