{"id":11,"date":"2006-01-12T20:04:26","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T19:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s143831080.websitehome.co.uk\/mc\/2006\/01\/12\/the-first-blog-entry\/"},"modified":"2006-01-14T13:59:59","modified_gmt":"2006-01-14T12:59:59","slug":"the-first-blog-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/2006\/01\/12\/the-first-blog-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we sat down to discuss the internet campaign for the leadership election, Ming was absolutely adamant that it should be a listening campaign.  That we shouldn&#8217;t just be putting his views across, but also running the campaign in a way that meant we were hearing the views of the party&#8217;s members and supporters.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, we&#8217;ve put a blog onto our site and to decided to allow comments on the blog. On some other political blogs, a minority have abused this opportunity: we&#8217;d prefer people to stay on topic and maintain a civil discourse with other readers; however, we want people to feel free to engage in discussion on most subjects.  As a last resort, we do reserve the right to remove or edit comments that are rude, derogatory, discriminatory, libelous, slanderous, uncivil, include inappropriate language or violate copyright &#8211; but our intention is that this should be very rare.  We&#8217;re keen to keep this channel open ongoing: if you have any ideas as to how we can do this most effectively, please let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we sat down to discuss the internet campaign for the leadership election, Ming was absolutely adamant that it should be a listening campaign. That we shouldn&#8217;t just be putting his views across, but also running the campaign in a way that meant we were hearing the views of the party&#8217;s members and supporters. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mingcampbell.org.uk\/ccarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}