{"id":48500,"date":"2015-05-08T13:58:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T05:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=48500"},"modified":"2015-05-08T14:02:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T06:02:34","slug":"london-mayor-boris-johnson-wins-parliament-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/08\/london-mayor-boris-johnson-wins-parliament-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"London Mayor Boris Johnson wins parliament seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color:#fff;display:inline-block;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#a7a7a7;font-size:11px;width:100%;max-width:594px;\">\n<div style=\"overflow:hidden;position:relative;height:0;padding:61.279461% 0 0 0;width:100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/472459270?et=Hvg0TniQRCtHobY7mPLHeQ&#038;viewMoreLink=on&#038;sig=V1hO691DWHKoD3W0ecF8keT2A2lIFbcM9TM3aU4OReI=&#038;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"364\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\">\n<div style=\"padding:0;margin:0 0 0 10px;text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/472459270\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">View image<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 5 a.m. (0400 GMT, midnight EDT)<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s back. London Mayor Boris Johnson has once again won a seat in parliament, this time representing voters in the Uxbridge and Ruislip South district, as Conservative Party candidates did much better than expected in Britain&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p>The shaggy-haired mayor, seen as a possible future Conservative Party leader, had previously represented Henley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people of Britain, after a long and exhausting campaign, have finally spoken,&#8221; he said early Friday. &#8220;They have decisively rejected any attempt to take this country back to the 1970s. They want us to go forward with the sensible, moderate policies that have led to a sustained economic recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson will do both jobs until voters choose a new London mayor in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View image | gettyimages.com LONDON \u2014 5 a.m. (0400 GMT, midnight EDT) He&#8217;s back. London Mayor Boris Johnson has once &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":48536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,483,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-politics","category-news-w","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}