{"id":1157,"date":"2011-05-23T09:09:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T03:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2011-05-23T09:09:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T03:39:29","slug":"the-myth-of-the-astute-voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/23\/the-myth-of-the-astute-voter\/","title":{"rendered":"The myth of the astute voter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business standard has an interesting article co-authored by Praveen around the achilles heel of democracy &#8211; an informed voter.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width:425px\" id=\"__ss_8062831\"><strong style=\"display:block;margin:12px 0 4px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/alokmittal\/the-myth-of-the-astute-voter\" title=\"The Myth of the Astute Voter\">The Myth of the Astute Voter<\/a><\/strong><object id=\"__sse8062831\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=20110523at016101002-110522223631-phpapp02&#038;stripped_title=the-myth-of-the-astute-voter&#038;userName=alokmittal\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><embed name=\"__sse8062831\" src=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=20110523at016101002-110522223631-phpapp02&#038;stripped_title=the-myth-of-the-astute-voter&#038;userName=alokmittal\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:5px 0 12px\">View more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\">presentations<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/alokmittal\">Alok Mittal<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nextindia.org%2Findex.php%2F2011%2F05%2F23%2Fthe-myth-of-the-astute-voter%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business standard has an interesting article co-authored by Praveen around the achilles heel of democracy &#8211; an informed voter. The Myth of the Astute Voter View more presentations from Alok Mittal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[489],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citizen-engagement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextindia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}