{"id":142,"date":"2006-01-06T19:29:08","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T19:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/01\/06\/liz-mcmanus-blog\/"},"modified":"2006-01-07T01:03:46","modified_gmt":"2006-01-07T01:03:46","slug":"liz-mcmanus-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2006\/01\/06\/liz-mcmanus-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz McManus Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

I noticed a new blog appear on Planet of the Blogs today- Liz McManus<\/a>, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.
\nShe’s clearly writing it herself. <\/p>\n

I’m in favour of Ms. McManus, as she appeared to wish my Grandmother a happy birthday a few years ago at her house party. And now I’m glad to see that she’s writing in a place that potential voters (both for herself personally, and the Labour Party) can read her stuff. More politicians ought to be at this. (And the Labour Party in particular, given that at the next election they won’t have a single TD under 50.)<\/p>\n

She mentioned<\/a> that she’s regularly directing people to read policy papers on the Labour Party site, and would like feedback on them. In all honesty, that’s not really going to happen very often. Policy papers are dense, turgid things. And even when they aren’t, they sound like they’re going to be. <\/p>\n

A better way to engage people’s imagination would be to give them a brief description on the blog of the policy- the kind you might give to a person you met in the pub. Then put in the link, so people whose interest has been piqued might be tempted to read more. <\/p>\n

Though, in fairness, the labour.ie<\/a> site is inponderably dull. If the policy papers are anything like the ones I tried to wade through a while back, there is a chance that interest might be rewarded only by a boredom induced coma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I noticed a new blog appear on Planet of the Blogs today- Liz McManus<\/a>, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. \r\nShe’s clearly writing it herself. More politicians ought to be at this. (And the Labour Party in particular, given that at the next election they won’t have a single TD under 50.)","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-rights","category-general","category-tuppenceworthie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}