{"id":34758,"date":"2013-11-14T08:47:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T08:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a69918302768e1393bd116fcffb58fa5"},"modified":"2013-11-14T08:47:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T08:47:09","slug":"speech-sir-richard-leese-the-strategic-case-for-hs2-short-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=34758","title":{"rendered":"Speech: Sir Richard Leese: The strategic case for HS2 (short version)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pjZKjs99tro&amp;feature=c4-overview&amp;list=UU8mgf88hO4bbrfta9bcgZuA\">Sir Richard Leese: The strategic case for HS2 (short version)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The link between good connectivity, good transport and economic growth is unquestionable.  If you did want to question it, just look at the opposite.  If we had no transport links, we\u2019d have no economy at all.  Cities like Manchester wouldn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortened version of the HS2 viewpoint by Sir Richard Leese, Manchester City Council, part of the strategic case for HS2 video interviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}