{"id":80,"date":"2004-08-29T13:21:55","date_gmt":"2004-08-29T13:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php\/2004\/08\/29\/howard_calls_el\/"},"modified":"2004-08-29T13:21:55","modified_gmt":"2004-08-29T13:21:55","slug":"howard_calls_el","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Howard calls Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In breaking news just announced, John Howard will become the first  &#8216;Coalition of the Willing&#8217; leader to face an election on October 9.<br \/>\nSee national broadcaster ABC&#8217;s coverage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/s1187484.htm\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe latest <a href=\"http:\/\/theage.com.au\/articles\/2004\/08\/22\/1093113052381.html\">Morgan opinion poll<\/a> is bad news for Howard, but apparently internal Liberal Party polling is better for him.<br \/>\nPolitical commentators have been swinging around on the relative fortunes of the contendors but Michelle Grattan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/articles\/2004\/08\/28\/1093518165066.html\">latest piece<\/a> also paints a bleak picture for Howard.<br \/>\nBut, as we all know, things can change quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In breaking news just announced, John Howard will become the first &#8216;Coalition of the Willing&#8217; leader to face an election on October 9. See national broadcaster ABC&#8217;s coverage here. The latest Morgan opinion poll is bad news for Howard, but apparently internal Liberal Party polling is better for him. Political commentators have been swinging around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}