{"id":4548,"date":"2016-06-25T23:28:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T15:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/25\/over-1-million-people-sign-petition-calling-for-a-second-eu-referendum\/"},"modified":"2016-06-25T23:28:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T15:28:39","slug":"over-1-million-people-sign-petition-calling-for-a-second-eu-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/25\/over-1-million-people-sign-petition-calling-for-a-second-eu-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 1 million people sign petition calling for a second EU referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f127000%2fpetitioncomp\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/Ubzs6pjBCI8hZl7Do4f3dPPkuNo=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F127000%2Fpetitioncomp.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Over+1+million+people+sign+petition+calling+for+a+second+EU+referendum&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F25%2Fbrexit-petition-2nd-eu-referendum%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F25%2Fbrexit-petition-2nd-eu-referendum%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 A petition calling for the UK to hold a second referendum on membership in the European Union surpassed 1.3 million signatures on Saturday, in the wake of Britain&#8217;s vote to leave the 28-member bloc.<\/p>\n<p>The demand to sign <a href=\"https:\/\/petition.parliament.uk\/petitions\/131215\">the parliamentary petition<\/a> briefly caused the government website to crash on Friday. A House of Commons spokeswoman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2016\/jun\/24\/petition-second-eu-referendum-crashes-house-of-commons-website\">told<\/a> the Guardian that the site was temporarily taken down\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">due to \u201cexceptionally high volumes of simultaneous users on a single petition, significantly higher than on any previous occasion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/24\/brexit-google-trends\/\">Google spike shows confused Brits searching for Brexit answers<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/25\/brexit-petition-2nd-eu-referendum\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/uk\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Uk<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/petition\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Petition<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/eu-referendum\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Eu Referendum<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/brexit\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Brexit<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">World<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href='http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?iu=\/6692\/mash.to\/rss&amp;pos=atf&amp;tag=ad&amp;mtype=standard&amp;type=rss&amp;sz=300x250&amp;c=1466861764' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?iu=\/6692\/mash.to\/rss&amp;pos=atf&amp;tag=ad&amp;mtype=standard&amp;type=rss&amp;sz=300x250&amp;c=1466861764'><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/fdmxNSXup1U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 A petition calling for the UK to hold a second referendum on membership in the European Union surpassed 1.3 million signatures on Saturday, in the wake of Britain&#8217;s vote to leave the 28-member bloc. The demand to sign &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/25\/over-1-million-people-sign-petition-calling-for-a-second-eu-referendum\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1387,1388,1007,760,1112],"class_list":["post-4548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-brexit","tag-eu-referendum","tag-petition","tag-uk","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}