{"id":311,"date":"2008-04-20T20:30:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T20:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=311"},"modified":"2008-04-20T20:30:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T20:30:48","slug":"lisbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Lisbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before voting for the Lisbon treaty make sure you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>read it<\/li>\n<li>understand it<\/li>\n<li>agree with it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Having a constitutional right to vote doesn&#8217;t mean someone should exercise it with less sensitivity than a 4 year old trying to decide which cereal to have for their breakfast. Having found the time to read some of the Lisbon treaty I must concur with Ulick McEvaddy. It&#8217;s incomprehensible and problematic for this country in many interpretations. The government is bound to campaign for a yes vote. When you listen to their arguments consider that the EU is so democratic that only a tiny fraction of EU citizens can cast their vote to decide whether to ratify it or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before voting for the Lisbon treaty make sure you: read it understand it agree with it Having a constitutional right to vote doesn&#8217;t mean someone should exercise it with less sensitivity than a 4 year old trying to decide which cereal to have for their breakfast. Having found the time to read some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}