{"id":1750,"date":"2012-10-15T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2023-08-30T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T00:22:17","slug":"progress-on-scottish-independence-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1750","title":{"rendered":"Progress on Scottish Independence Referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A referendum&nbsp;to decide Scotland&#8217;s future &#8211;&nbsp;maximum devolution&nbsp;but stopping short&nbsp;of independence&nbsp;&#8211; will be held&nbsp;late in&nbsp;2014.&nbsp; This&nbsp;is described as the biggest shake-up in&nbsp;the United Kingdom&nbsp;since the Irish declared their independence in 1921 and Scotland&#8217;s biggest political decision in 300 years.&nbsp; The vote cannot be deferred if it&#8217;s unlikely to succeed and 16 year olds will be participating.&nbsp; Spending limits on the campaign are already contentious but not yet settled.&nbsp; England is opposed, wanting&nbsp;the&nbsp;vote in&nbsp;2013&nbsp;and under 18s excluded but had to give ground.&nbsp; The referendum is also&nbsp;described as &#8220;socially important&#8221; for Scotland.&nbsp; More&nbsp;interesting stuff&nbsp;happening in Scotland than in Australia.&nbsp;[&#8216;Scottish referendum countdown begins with Cameron visit to Scotland&#8217; by Nicholas Watt and Severin Carroll, The Guardian, 15 October 2012]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A referendum&nbsp;to decide Scotland&#8217;s future &#8211;&nbsp;maximum devolution&nbsp;but stopping short&nbsp;of independence&nbsp;&#8211; will be held&nbsp;late in&nbsp;2014.&nbsp; This&nbsp;is described as the biggest shake-up in&nbsp;the United Kingdom&nbsp;since the Irish declared their independence in 1921 and Scotland&#8217;s biggest political decision in 300 years.&nbsp; The vote&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20","wpcat-20-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","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=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1751,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}