{"id":345,"date":"2006-07-13T21:17:07","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T20:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=345"},"modified":"2006-07-13T21:17:07","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T20:17:07","slug":"irish-politics-and-blogger-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"Irish Politics, and blogger voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damien Mulley has managed to fire up a discussion on Irish Politics. Here; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mulley.net\/2006\/07\/11\/labour-consider-inviting-bloggers-to-the-ard-fheis-oh-how-terribly-nice-of-them\/\">Labour consider inviting bloggers to the Ard Fheis. Oh how terribly nice of them!<\/a> and here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mulley.net\/2006\/07\/12\/irish-bloggers-will-not-influence-the-election\/\">Irish Bloggers will not influence the election<\/a> and while I think he really is concerned, I think he is doing a bit of tongue in cheeky just to stir things up a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Fundamentally the question is how do you connect with politicians that want nothing more than to be completely removed from public opinion. It&#8217;s no wonder that they are having such a hard time taking bloggers seriously. They don&#8217;t want to <b>talk<\/b> to any individual let alone one who will publish the conversation on the internet five minutes after the last pint is gone. <\/p>\n<p>I have never seen a government this far removed from public scrutiny, and who prefer to remain out of reach of any freedom of  information requests. I doubt 2 people in 10 know how the current politicians got into office let alone the process on how they got elected. And the politicians are happy with that situation. Completely! <\/p>\n<p>Why disturb the status quo?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the Irish deserve better? (that includes me now)<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damien Mulley has managed to fire up a discussion on Irish Politics. Here; Labour consider inviting bloggers to the Ard Fheis. Oh how terribly nice of them! and here Irish Bloggers will not influence the election and while I think<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=345\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Irish Politics, and blogger voices<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13,8,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-ireland","category-politics","category-social-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}