{"id":987,"date":"2019-04-30T11:24:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T10:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/?p=987"},"modified":"2019-04-30T11:24:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T10:24:27","slug":"local-elections-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/?p=987","title":{"rendered":"Local elections 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trafford.gov.uk\/about-your-council\/elections\/docs\/Local-Election-2-May-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img data-attachment-id=\"988\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=988\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Trafford-local-elections-2019.jpg?fit=1103%2C825\" data-orig-size=\"1103,825\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Trafford local elections 2019\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Trafford-local-elections-2019.jpg?fit=300%2C224\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Trafford-local-elections-2019.jpg?fit=660%2C494\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1103\" height=\"825\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Trafford-local-elections-2019.jpg?fit=660%2C494\" alt=\"Stretford candidates\" class=\"wp-image-988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Trafford-local-elections-2019.jpg?w=1103 1103w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Trafford-local-elections-2019.jpg?resize=300%2C224 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Trafford-local-elections-2019.jpg?resize=768%2C574 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Trafford-local-elections-2019.jpg?resize=1024%2C766 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-large-font-size\">Please vote!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you normally don&#8217;t, or if you&#8217;re fed up with these <em>children <\/em>who laughingly call themselves our representatives, then please turn up, and spoil your vote. It <strong>will <\/strong>be noticed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please vote! If you normally don&#8217;t, or if you&#8217;re fed up with these children who laughingly call themselves our representatives, then please turn up, and spoil your vote. It will be noticed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[226,6,222],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ZcXa-fV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":234,"url":"http:\/\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/?p=234","url_meta":{"origin":987,"position":0},"title":"Trident renewal July 19th 2016.","date":"19th July 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The House of Commons has backed the renewal of the UK's Trident nuclear weapons system by 472 votes to 117. HMS Victorious on exercise. 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