{"id":25896,"date":"2014-09-01T07:34:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T06:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=25896"},"modified":"2014-09-01T07:31:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T06:31:02","slug":"just-a-scottish-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/09\/01\/just-a-scottish-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a Scottish dream?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/aug\/31\/scottish-independence-yes-vote-turnout-polls?CMP=twt_gu\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">from Paul Mason<\/a> in the Guardian:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What we know already is that a significant number of Scottish people have a dream: where statehood, social justice and cultural self-confidence fit together into a clear and popular project.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My hope would be that this is not just a Scottish dream, but so far it has not crossed the border into England.<\/p>\n<p>I wish it would, for this is not about crude nationalism. That oppresses in the end. This is about empowerment, and that&#39;s the exact opposite and precisely what we need. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from Paul Mason in the Guardian: What we know already is that a significant number of Scottish people have a dream: where statehood,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/09\/01\/just-a-scottish-dream\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}