{"id":2937,"date":"2019-05-22T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/4-inviting-your-mp"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T14:34:00","slug":"4-inviting-your-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/4-inviting-your-mp","title":{"rendered":"4. Inviting your MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inviting your local MP to attend your tree planting ceremony can be an incredibly powerful way to engage with your local representative about this issue and get them to show support for changing the system. As soon as you\u2019ve picked a date for your event, make sure to invite your MP, so they have as much notice as possible.<br \/>\nYou can find out who your MP is by clicking here and entering your postcode. You can then use the website to write an email to your MP and invite them to your event. Let them know the event details, what it\u2019s about and any personal connection you have with the issue. To give your MP more background about the issue, you can include a link to JCWI\u2019s briefing about the MIR and the impact it has on families.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s best to organise your event for a Friday or Saturday, as it\u2019s more likely your MP will be in the area and able to attend. Between late July and early September, Parliament does not operate, and your MP may be away on holiday &#038;ndas&#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inviting your local MP to attend your tree planting ceremony can be an incredibly powerful way to engage with your local representative about this issue and get them to show support for changing the system. As soon as you\u2019ve picked a date for your event, make sure to invite your MP, so they have as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}