{"id":68072,"date":"2026-11-10T18:41:41","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T07:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=68072"},"modified":"2026-11-10T18:41:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T07:41:41","slug":"direct-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=68072","title":{"rendered":"Direct Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68073\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Direct_Democracy.jpg\" alt=\"Direct Democracy\" width=\"516\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Direct_Democracy.jpg 516w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Direct_Democracy-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just signed a petition supporting the idea that ordinary citizens can exert more control over government decision making than the present system currently allows. Since such a large percentage of us are unhappy with the decisions being made on our behalf this sounds like a great thing to get behind.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out!<\/p>\n<p>Finish reading:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/directdemocracy.org.au\/\">https:\/\/directdemocracy.org.au\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just signed a petition supporting the idea that ordinary citizens can exert more control over government decision making than the present system currently allows. Since such a large percentage of us are unhappy with the decisions being made on our behalf this sounds like a great thing to get behind. Check it out! Finish &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=68072\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Direct Democracy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68072","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=68072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68074,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68072\/revisions\/68074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}