{"id":49823,"date":"2026-04-02T13:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/swinney-softens-stance-on-north-sea-drilling-as-oil-prices-soar\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:08:30","slug":"swinney-softens-stance-on-north-sea-drilling-as-oil-prices-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/swinney-softens-stance-on-north-sea-drilling-as-oil-prices-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"Swinney softens stance on North Sea drilling as oil prices soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>The first minister said energy security should be a primary concern when making decisions on oil and gas projects.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c937kqxyy5wo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first minister said energy security should be a primary concern when making decisions on oil and gas projects. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[7838,293,552,1729,1465,226,14459,6809,2585],"class_list":["post-49823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-drilling","tag-north","tag-oil","tag-prices","tag-sea","tag-soar","tag-softens","tag-stance","tag-swinney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49823","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=49823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49825,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49823\/revisions\/49825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}