{"id":1264,"date":"2008-02-10T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/02\/10\/another-father-and-son-team\/"},"modified":"2008-02-10T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T15:07:00","slug":"another-father-and-son-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/02\/10\/another-father-and-son-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Another father and son team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>another father-son team?\u00a0 We have Lim Kit Siang and his son already.<\/p>\n<p>Gobind: It&#8217;s time for me to contest<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/2\/10\/nation\/20283139&amp;sec=nation\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>JOHOR BARU: DAP national legal bureau secretary Gobind Singh Deo is undecided on whether to contest a state or parliamentary seat in Johor. But the son of DAP chairman Karpal Singh is certain about one thing &#8211; that it is time for him to contest on the party&#8217;s ticket.<br \/>\nGiven a choice, Gobind Singh, 34, said that he preferred to vie for a parliamentary seat. &#8220;But if the (DAP) leadership wants me to stand for a state seat, I will,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said his interest in contesting was not due to pressure or coaxing from his famous father, adding that it was his own decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>another father-son team?\u00a0 We have Lim Kit Siang and his son already. Gobind: It&#8217;s time for me to contest source JOHOR BARU: DAP national legal bureau secretary Gobind Singh Deo is undecided on whether to contest a state or parliamentary seat in Johor. But the son of DAP chairman Karpal Singh is certain about one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[119,130],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-dap","tag-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}