{"id":45929,"date":"2014-09-18T15:15:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T15:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/scotsman_scottish_independence_our_day_of_destiny\/"},"modified":"2014-09-18T15:15:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T15:15:25","slug":"scotsman_scottish_independence_our_day_of_destiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45929","title":{"rendered":"(Scotsman) Scottish independence: Our day of destiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The people of Scotland will go to the polls in record numbers today when two and a half years of campaigning culminate in the most important vote in the country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The future of Scotland and that of the 307-year-old United Kingdom will be determined by an unprecedented turnout of voters from Shetland to the Borders.<\/p>\n<p>With last night\u2019s polls indicating that the result is too close to call, the fate of the nation lies in the hands of 4,285,323 people \u201d\u201c 97 per cent of the potential electorate \u201d\u201c who have registered to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Voters can cast their ballot at 5,579 polling stations from 7am until the polls close at 10pm. The question: \u201cShould Scotland be an independent country?\u201d\u009d requires a straight Yes or No answer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/politics\/top-stories\/scottish-independence-our-day-of-destiny-1-3545212\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people of Scotland will go to the polls in record numbers today when two and a half years of campaigning culminate in the most important vote in the country\u2019s history. The future of Scotland and that of the 307-year-old<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45929\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,199,168,144,133,151,326,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-history","category-politics-in-general","category-scotland","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}