{"id":790,"date":"2010-12-19T23:29:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T23:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cx100.justhost.com\/~bridge32\/news\/?p=790"},"modified":"2010-12-20T00:02:17","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T00:02:17","slug":"pullman-quits-the-lib-dems-over-broken-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-quits-the-lib-dems-over-broken-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Pullman quits the Lib Dems over broken promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Pullman has recently spoken out against the Liberal Democrats, stating that he would never have backed the party if he had known they would break their tuition fees pledge, a pledge which earned them a lot of votes from students, prospective and current.<\/p>\n<p>Pullman also said that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/top-stories\/2010\/12\/17\/philip-pullman-quits-liberal-democrats-115875-22788932\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;the promises [they made] bear little relation to what they&#8217;re doing now&#8221;,<\/a> a sentiment that is shared by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/politics\/liberaldemocrats\/8211403\/Celebrity-Liberal-Democrats-desert-Nick-Clegg.html\" target=\"_blank\">actor Colin Firth, musician Milly Bragg and fellow author Kate Mosse.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Pullman has recently spoken out against the Liberal Democrats, stating that he would never have backed the party if he had known they would break their tuition fees pledge, a pledge which earned them a lot of votes from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-quits-the-lib-dems-over-broken-promises\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philip-pullman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}