{"id":1547,"date":"2008-08-07T22:44:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T10:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2008-08-08T09:36:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T21:36:25","slug":"o-blog-how-i-have-let-thee-languish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1547","title":{"rendered":"O blog, how I have let thee languish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a good day today. In the morning I continued to learn to edit. The book I&#8217;m working on is quite hard going and full of academia-speak. At lunchtime I went out with a happy little crew and a mini-DV camera. We recorded a couple of dozen vox pops, asking people what they&#8217;d do if they were given $60 a week to make the world a better place. I think we got a lot of good footage. This is for <a href=\"http:\/\/giveitup.org.nz\/\">giveitup.org.nz<\/a>, which ought to be live by the start of September. In the evening, Eliza and Isis and I went to Drinking Liberally to hear Trevor Mallard speak. He made a good impression on us (at least on Eliza and I &#8212; Isis wasn&#8217;t paying a lot of attention). He was down to earth. He wasn&#8217;t always on message. He wants to do what&#8217;s right for New Zealand workers. He thought the carbon tax would have been a better solution than the ETS, but that politically its moment had passed. My mabo: he is a good person to have in parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a good day today. In the morning I continued to learn to edit. The book I&#8217;m working on is quite hard going and full of academia-speak. At lunchtime I went out with a happy little crew and a mini-DV camera. We recorded a couple of dozen vox pops, asking people what they&#8217;d do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}