{"id":13786,"date":"2013-02-07T18:57:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T23:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=13786"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:57:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T23:57:22","slug":"historic-vote-in-the-house-of-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2013\/02\/historic-vote-in-the-house-of-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic vote in The House of Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON | Thurs Feb 7, 2013<\/p>\n<p>(ROTO REUTERS) The House of Commons voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to approve a bill redefining poverty in Britain, indicating that the bill is assured of passage as it moves through further legislative stages.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister David Cameron had been concerned about the increasing poverty rates and the growing problems poverty entails. The bill changed the definition of poverty to only include those who have less than a shilling and don\u2019t have any family members to support them. Members of The House of Commons are enthused about this historic vote which wiped out poverty overnight.<\/p>\n<p>After the approval of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage David Cameron said \u201cI was thinking if we could change the definition of marriage to mean whatever we wanted it to mean then what is to stop of from doing this in other areas? If we can go from an understudying of marriage as the union of one man and one woman to hardly having a definition at all, then certainly that provides a precedent.\u201d Mr. Cameron has also outlined some other legislative efforts such as redefining illness thus saving millions regarding the National Health Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON | Thurs Feb 7, 2013 (ROTO REUTERS) The House of Commons voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to approve a bill redefining poverty in Britain, indicating that the bill is assured&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13787,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786\/revisions\/13787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}