{"id":1604,"date":"2013-04-11T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pbs.plymouth.ac.uk\/teamweb\/electionscentre\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2013-04-11T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T09:00:26","slug":"will-the-tory-strongholds-stand-the-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/?p=1604","title":{"rendered":"Will the Tory strongholds stand the strain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Colin Rallings &amp; Michael Thrasher<\/strong> analyse the field of battle ahead of next month\u2019s local elections &#8211; 11th April 2013<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Labour\u2019s lead in the polls looks certain to be matched by gains of both seats and councils in May\u2019s local elections. But with most contests taking place far from the party\u2019s heartlands in its weakest tier of local government, the battle between the coalition parties is the one most electors will experience&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgcplus.com\/news\/local-elections\/will-the-tory-strongholds-stand-the-strain\/5056982.article\">click here to continue reading original article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Rallings &amp; Michael Thrasher analyse the field of battle ahead of next month\u2019s local elections &#8211; 11th April 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,13,7,8],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5YXV0-pS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}