{"id":105,"date":"2006-05-18T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/?p=105"},"modified":"2011-07-07T01:01:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T00:01:22","slug":"targetting-those-minorities-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Targetting those minorities Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex has left a comment about my <a href=\"http:\/\/timely.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/get-your-tanks-off-our-roads.htm\">Get Your Tanks Off Our Roads<\/a> article. I am a little taken aback by the robustness of the comments but it raises several important points about my views that need clarifying, to the extent that they deserve a blog article or two rather than a comment back.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to do this in two parts because I don&#8217;t have the time to answer all Alex&#8217;s points in one go:<\/p>\n<p>1) I don&#8217;t post very often because I don&#8217;t have the time. I chose 4x4s and the BNP as topics of my most recent posts because they are issues that I want to write about. Not because I am looking to tackle them to the exclusion of other issues. If I had time, I&#8217;d hold forth about the Monarchy, Blair&#8217;s lack of consistency on human rights and immigration, over packing of goods in shops and yes air travel amongst other issues.<\/p>\n<p>2) 4x4s are also something as a cyclist and driver that I see everyday. Again this makes me likely to write about it. Every time I walk, cucle or drive down the road, I see them.<\/p>\n<p>3) Not all 4x4s are as bad as other cars, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopurban4x4s.org.uk\/\">Alliance Against Urban 4x4s<\/a> makes clear.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll come to Alex&#8217;s other points, particularly about Liberalism when I have a moment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex has left a comment about my Get Your Tanks Off Our Roads article. I am a little taken aback by the robustness of the comments but it raises several important points about my views that need clarifying, to the extent that they deserve a blog article or two rather than a comment back. I&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6dbnw-1H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}