{"id":48497,"date":"2026-03-13T10:40:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/edinburgh-city-council-spending-on-foreign-trips-causes-division\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:40:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:40:55","slug":"edinburgh-city-council-spending-on-foreign-trips-causes-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/edinburgh-city-council-spending-on-foreign-trips-causes-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh City Council spending on foreign trips causes division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Watt said: &#8220;As Scotland&#8217;s capital, it&#8217;s important that we&#8217;re represented on the international stage along with other major cities &#8211; including others from Scotland &#8211; as a means of promoting the city, building relationships with leaders from around the world and learning from our counterparts in different countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy9gzpl25q0o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watt said: &#8220;As Scotland&#8217;s capital, it&#8217;s important that we&#8217;re represented on the international stage along with other major cities &#8211; including others from Scotland &#8211; as a means of promoting the city, building relationships with leaders from around the world and learning from our counterparts in different countries.&#8221; Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[297,1683,7566,2878,1632,2052,14170],"class_list":["post-48497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-city","tag-council","tag-division","tag-edinburgh","tag-foreign","tag-spending","tag-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48499,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48497\/revisions\/48499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}