{"id":534,"date":"2019-10-08T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T15:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/?p=534"},"modified":"2019-10-08T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T15:46:09","slug":"what-was-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/2019\/10\/08\/what-was-the-point\/","title":{"rendered":"What was the point?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament will be prorogued later today.  It has been sitting since the court judgement &#8211; that is during the latter half of the Labour conference week, when it would normally have been recessed, during the whole of the Tory conference week, when it would normally have been recessed, and during yesterday and today, when it could normally have been prorogued.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly has parliament achieved with this extra time?  I know of no act passed.  What was the point?  (This is a real question, not just rhetorical. By all means inform me in the comments if you can answer it.)<\/p>\n<p>It was claimed to be essential that parliament perform its functions during this time.  What essential thing(s) did it do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament will be prorogued later today. It has been sitting since the court judgement &#8211; that is during the latter half of the Labour conference week, when it would normally have been recessed, during the whole of the Tory conference week, when it would normally have been recessed, and during yesterday and today, when it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}