{"id":2763,"date":"2014-09-19T07:59:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T05:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2014-09-19T07:59:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T05:59:33","slug":"no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2014\/09\/19\/no\/","title":{"rendered":"No"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was too tired to stay up beyond 01:30. I set my alarm for 04:00 and fell asleep quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Turned on the TV a couple of minutes after 4, and saw that No was ahead 51 to 49 after 7 results declared. I couldn&#8217;t handle the feverish excitement of the TV commentators. I turned the sound off. Rather than stay up to watch more results come in, I set my alarm again for 06:00.<\/p>\n<p>I tossed and turned for two hours, hoping that the later results might be positive enought to overturn No&#8217;s lead, heart pounding in fear they wouldn&#8217;t. Wondering how I would react to a final No outcome.<\/p>\n<p>I checked the time at 05:59, seconds before my alarm would have sounded. Turned on the TV, saw the camera panning over cheering No supporters. 55 to 45.<\/p>\n<p>First Minister&#8217;s speech following defeat. Self-congratulation over the high turnout, but no change.<\/p>\n<p>So here I am, alone in a tiny hotel room, watching TV with the sound turned off, crying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was too tired to stay up beyond 01:30. I set my alarm for 04:00 and fell asleep quickly. Turned on the TV a couple of minutes after 4, and saw that No was ahead 51 to 49 after 7 results declared. I couldn&#8217;t handle the feverish excitement of the TV commentators. I turned the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2014\/09\/19\/no\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2764,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions\/2764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}