{"id":1484,"date":"2014-07-24T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2023-08-29T22:04:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:04:52","slug":"commonwealth-changes-afoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Changes Afoot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the opening of the Glasgow\u00a0Commonwealth Games &#8211; where Australia wins more medals than everyone else because there&#8217;s not much competition &#8211; Scotland\u00a0and all things Scottish are on show ahead of the independence referendum on 18 September. Who knows what might happen if the nationalism kick is a great as that from\u00a0the Brisbane Games in 1982\u00a0which added significant heft\u00a0to\u00a0republican desire\u00a0in the\u00a0early 1990s. The Games were opened by the head of\u00a0the Commonwealth, the\u00a0Queen of Australia, who could\u00a0also be\u00a0the Queen of Scotland very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the opening of the Glasgow\u00a0Commonwealth Games &#8211; where Australia wins more medals than everyone else because there&#8217;s not much competition &#8211; Scotland\u00a0and all things Scottish are on show ahead of the independence referendum on 18 September. Who knows what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}