{"id":58637,"date":"2026-08-14T01:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/welcome-to-one-of-the-most-bizarre-by-elections-in-recent-history\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T01:58:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:58:42","slug":"welcome-to-one-of-the-most-bizarre-by-elections-in-recent-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/welcome-to-one-of-the-most-bizarre-by-elections-in-recent-history\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Welcome to one of the most bizarre by-elections in recent history&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>Votes are being counted in the Clacton by-election, with results expected in the early hours of Friday.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/c5y4zrxgjq2o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Votes are being counted in the Clacton by-election, with results expected in the early hours of Friday. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[16324,8044,12286,13988],"class_list":["post-58637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-039welcome","tag-bizarre","tag-byelections","tag-history039"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58637","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=58637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58639,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58637\/revisions\/58639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}