{"id":2297,"date":"2010-06-24T07:26:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T21:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2010-06-24T07:31:46","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T21:31:46","slug":"gillard-contests-rudd-leadership-set-to-become-australias-first-female-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2297","title":{"rendered":"Gillard contests Rudd leadership, set to become Australia&#8217;s first female Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2298\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ruddnews.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2298\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2298\" title=\"ruddnews\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ruddnews.png\" alt=\"News.com's front page this morning\" width=\"600\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ruddnews.png 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ruddnews-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Headline story from News.com.au this morning<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This story broke late last night:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;KEVIN Rudd this morning looks  certain to lose his prime ministership in a caucus ballot after he and  Julia Gillard last night spent a desperate 2 1\/2 hours in failed talks. \t\t\t\t<!-- google_ad_section_end(name=story_introduction) --> <\/strong> <!-- \/\/ .story-intro --> <!-- google_ad_section_start(name=story_body, weight=high) -->Key Labor powerbrokers yesterday moved on Mr Rudd, telling the  Deputy Prime Minister she had the numbers to win.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Rudd  made it clear he would not step aside and that his enemies would have to  force him out.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So it looks like we will have a new prime minister in about 90 minutes or so.<\/p>\n<p>I did think the juxtaposition I awoke to this morning on Facebook was pretty funny.\u00a0 Somehow, I don&#8217;t think Nicholas really wants me to &#8216;share the latest news&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sharethenews.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2299\" title=\"sharethenews\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sharethenews.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sharethenews.png 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sharethenews-300x191.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story broke late last night: &#8220;KEVIN Rudd this morning looks certain to lose his prime ministership in a caucus ballot after he and Julia Gillard last night spent a desperate 2 1\/2 hours in failed talks. Key Labor powerbrokers yesterday moved on Mr Rudd, telling the Deputy Prime Minister she had the numbers to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}