{"id":199,"date":"2005-06-30T09:12:42","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T13:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/30\/british-parliaments-metachlorine-count-rises\/"},"modified":"2005-06-30T09:15:01","modified_gmt":"2005-06-30T13:15:01","slug":"british-parliaments-metachlorine-count-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/30\/british-parliaments-metachlorine-count-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"British Parliament&#8217;s metachlorine count rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb_kenobi.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"86\" alt=\"Kenobi\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago the British Office for National Statistics added &#8220;Jedi Knight&#8221; as a checkbox for religion in their census. Now, in his maiden speech to the House of Commons, the Hon. Member for Copeland, Jamie Reed MP, announced that he is a Jedi. From a Parliament <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm200506\/cmhansrd\/cm050621\/debtext\/50621-23.htm#50621-23_spnew3\">publication<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>as the first Jedi Member of this place, I look forward to the protection under the law that will be provided to me by the Bill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s referring to the controversial Incitement to Religious Hatred Bill, so my guess is that he doesn&#8217;t seriously consider himself a Jedi, but he&#8217;s just trying to make a point about the bill. Still, it would be good to see someone address Tony Blair as &#8220;the Right Honourable Darth Foppish&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago the British Office for National Statistics added &#8220;Jedi Knight&#8221; as a checkbox for religion in their census. Now, in his maiden speech to the House of Commons, the Hon. Member for Copeland, Jamie Reed MP, announced that he is a Jedi. From a Parliament publication: as the first Jedi Member of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-strange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}