{"id":935,"date":"2017-04-05T14:31:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T14:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/?p=935"},"modified":"2017-04-05T14:33:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T14:33:24","slug":"nicola-sturgeon-sets-global-vision-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/nicola-sturgeon-sets-global-vision-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicola Sturgeon sets out global vision for Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Report: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-39489107\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-39489107<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Independence would offer Scotland the best way of making a positive contribution to the world, Nicola Sturgeon has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The first minister was speaking at Stanford University in California as she continued her five-day US trip.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Sturgeon also urged the UK government to recognise the &#8220;right&#8221; of Scots to decide their own future. <\/p>\n<p>Opposition parties said she was trying to build support for a referendum which the majority of Scots did not want. <\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Parliament last week voted to back the first minister&#8217;s call for talks to take place with the UK government over a second independence referendum.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- responsive1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"3379014842\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8934562929349122\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"storify\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/storify.com\/theSNP\/first-minister-s-trade-and-investment-visit-to-usa\/embed?border=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><script src=\"\/\/storify.com\/theSNP\/first-minister-s-trade-and-investment-visit-to-usa.js?border=false\"><\/script><noscript>[<a href=\"\/\/storify.com\/theSNP\/first-minister-s-trade-and-investment-visit-to-usa\" target=\"_blank\">View the story &#8221; Nicola Sturgeon in the US: what&#8217;s happened so far. &#8221; on Storify<\/a>]<\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Nicola Sturgeon at Stanford University: &#8220;Scotland&#8217;s Place in the World&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G_iPxlaM4Qw?list=PLxTzzR1GM-0duKYKJBa38h-sGZFceBBam\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report: http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-39489107 Independence would offer Scotland the best way of making a positive contribution to the world, Nicola Sturgeon has claimed. The first minister was speaking at Stanford University in California as she continued her five-day US trip. Ms Sturgeon also urged the UK government to recognise the &#8220;right&#8221; of Scots to decide their own future. Opposition parties said she was trying to build support for a referendum which the majority of Scots did not want. The Scottish Parliament last week voted to back the first minister&#8217;s call for talks&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}