{"id":975,"date":"2010-05-05T13:45:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T12:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=975"},"modified":"2010-05-05T13:45:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T12:45:29","slug":"hand-on-art-should-the-arts-be-a-consideration-in-this-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/05\/05\/hand-on-art-should-the-arts-be-a-consideration-in-this-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand on Art: should the arts be a consideration in this election?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With voting in the election set to start in less that twenty four hours, time for one last <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/electionviews\/2010\/05\/05\/hand-on-art-is-culture-important-to-the-election\/\" target=\"_blank\">guest post<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/electionviews\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Election Views<\/a>,&#8217; as\u00a0people make their final considerations before casting their vote.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_977\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-977\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2010\/05\/polling-station.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-977 \" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px;border: white 5px solid\" title=\"polling station\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2010\/05\/polling-station-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Polling station\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2010\/05\/polling-station-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2010\/05\/polling-station-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Time to get casting...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Is it important to consider the arts policies and attitudes of campaigning parties when deciding for whom to vote ? Should we rather be considering their views on employment, education, and frontline services ?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/electionviews\/2010\/05\/05\/hand-on-art-is-culture-important-to-the-election\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to find out.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/05\/05\/hand-on-art-should-the-arts-be-a-consideration-in-this-election\/&amp;t=Hand on Art: should the arts be a consideration in this election?' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Hand on Art: should the arts be a consideration in this election?%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/05\/05\/hand-on-art-should-the-arts-be-a-consideration-in-this-election\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/05\/05\/hand-on-art-should-the-arts-be-a-consideration-in-this-election\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/05\/05\/hand-on-art-should-the-arts-be-a-consideration-in-this-election\/&amp;title=Hand on Art: should the arts be a consideration in this election?' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/05\/05\/hand-on-art-should-the-arts-be-a-consideration-in-this-election\/&amp;title=Hand on Art: should the arts be a consideration in this election?' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With voting in the election set to start in less that twenty four hours, time for one last guest post on &#8216;Election Views,&#8217; as\u00a0people make their final considerations before casting their vote. Is it important to consider the arts policies and attitudes of campaigning parties when deciding for whom to vote ? Should we rather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/05\/05\/hand-on-art-should-the-arts-be-a-consideration-in-this-election\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hand on Art: should the arts be a consideration in this election?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1110],"tags":[1012],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}