{"id":719,"date":"2009-05-09T11:33:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T11:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/?p=719"},"modified":"2009-05-09T11:35:16","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T11:35:16","slug":"dublin-politics-face-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/09\/dublin-politics-face-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin Politics = Face Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week brought the return of Anita&#8217;s beloved &#8220;face posters,&#8221; the primary form of campaigning that we&#8217;ve noticed. These posters, of uniform size and a standard design, are attached to nearly every pole in the neighbourhood. Here are two examples near Baggot Street:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/faceposters08may09.jpg\" alt=\"faceposters08may09\" title=\"faceposters08may09\" width=\"344\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-720\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/faceposters08may09.jpg 344w, http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/faceposters08may09-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/>`<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>The upcoming election (in Dublin) is for two levels of government: representatives to the local councils and to the European parliament. The newspapers lead me to believe that there is a close parallel between these elections and mid-term Congressional elections in the US. In both cases, the media and the parties take the results to indicate the popularity of the parties at the national level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week brought the return of Anita&#8217;s beloved &#8220;face posters,&#8221; the primary form of campaigning that we&#8217;ve noticed. These posters, of uniform size and a standard design, are attached to nearly every pole in the neighbourhood. Here are two examples near Baggot Street: ` The upcoming election (in Dublin) is for two levels of government: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,8,7,17],"tags":[628,760,622,629,32,759,153,33,627,624,625,766,623,626],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}