{"id":10927,"date":"2014-09-19T20:59:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T00:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=10927"},"modified":"2014-09-19T20:59:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T00:59:45","slug":"scotlands-no-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/19\/scotlands-no-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland&#8217;s &#8220;No&#8221; vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scots voted &#8220;No&#8221; to independence, with a clear 55% to 45% majority. Alex Salmond has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/scottish-independence\/11106839\/Scottish-independence-referendum-results-live.html\">announced he will resign<\/a> as First Minister and SNP leader, with the words: &#8220;For me as leader my time is nearly over, but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream shall never die.&#8221; Like Bruce&#8217;s spider of legend, I doubt he will give up after failing at the first attempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scots voted &#8220;No&#8221; to independence, with a clear 55% to 45% majority. Alex Salmond has announced he will resign as First Minister and SNP leader, with the words: &#8220;For me as leader my time is nearly over, but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream shall never die.&#8221; Like Bruce&#8217;s spider of legend, I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/19\/scotlands-no-vote\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scotland&#8217;s &#8220;No&#8221; vote&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[156,1807,3052],"class_list":["post-10927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-europe-countries-regions","tag-alex-salmond","tag-independence-referendum","tag-scotland"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Scotland&#039;s &quot;No&quot; vote - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Scotland&#039;s &quot;No&quot; vote - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Scots voted &#8220;No&#8221; to independence, with a clear 55% to 45% majority. 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