{"id":575,"date":"2010-10-18T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=575"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:43:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:43:35","slug":"free-essex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"Free Essex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Originally posted 2006&#8230;<\/i><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7264\/1161\/1600\/Essex%20Arms.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7264\/1161\/400\/Essex%20Arms.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>I am an Essex boy, born and bred.<\/p>\n<p>Essex has a population of around 1.3m. If it was a state in the US it would lie 40 out of 50, in other words, bigger than Maine, New Hampshire, Montana or Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>It has a GDP of \u00a315bn. That makes it bigger than, for example, Latvia or Bolivia, which have UN representation, and about the same size as Vermont or Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>All those places carry certain responsibilities. They can elect their governments. They have their own legal systems. They can control their own affairs.<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t. We&#8217;re going to end up being controlled by a Scot.<\/p>\n<p>This does not seem just to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted 2006&#8230;I am an Essex boy, born and bred. Essex has a population of around 1.3m. If it was a state in the US it would lie 40 out of 50, in other words, bigger than Maine, New Hampshire, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=575\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-essex"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-9h","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6319,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/6319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}