{"id":1044,"date":"2003-08-15T12:08:50","date_gmt":"2003-08-15T20:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2005-08-27T22:10:39","modified_gmt":"2005-08-28T06:10:39","slug":"politicians-lighter-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"politicians&#8217; lighter moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesmanorskatesman.co.uk\/\">Statesman or Skatesman?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n I found a fantastic picture of Enoch Powell MP on a pogo stick, and so decided to write to a load of MPs and Peers, to see whether any of them had ever been on other forms of children&#8217;s locomotive toys (ie Skateboards, Roller skates, Space Hoppers etc etc.)<\/p>\n<p>Much to my amazement over 80 of them responded, including three Prime Ministers, five Chancellors, six Foreign Secretaries, four Home Secretaries, and three Speakers of the House of Commons.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> (Link from <a href=\"http:\/\/b3ta.com\/newsletter\/issue100\/\">B3ta<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statesman or Skatesman? I found a fantastic picture of Enoch Powell MP on a pogo stick, and so decided to write to a load of MPs and Peers, to see whether any of them had ever been on other forms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1044\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}