{"id":529,"date":"2014-04-19T09:53:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T21:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/?p=529"},"modified":"2014-04-19T09:54:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T21:54:40","slug":"new-zealands-victorians-uncool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/new-zealands-victorians-uncool\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s Victorians Uncool?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>New Zealand Herald<\/em> has just published its list of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=11240464\" target=\"_blank\">Coolest 50 Kiwis Ever<\/a>&#8220;. \u00a0The paper admits that its list is subjective. \u00a0It has a reasonable percentage of women and M\u0101ori but, like many of these kinds of lists, individuals from the present and near present predominate, and\u00a0coolness is seen to fade as time passes. \u00a0What is quite incredible is that it appears that no one cool flourished in the nineteenth century. \u00a0This is of course the &#8220;coolest Kiwis ever&#8221;, and New Zealanders in the nineteenth century probably didn&#8217;t consider themselves as &#8220;kiwi&#8221;, or think that &#8220;coolness&#8221; related to anything other than temperature. \u00a0Yes, New Zealand&#8217;s population was much fewer in the nineteenth century, but surely there were one or two individuals in the colonial period who were well known, widely admired, and who captured the public imagination (while still retaining the classic New Zealand humility) or perhaps even a few gay blades and gals whose ascetic stood out from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand Herald has just published its list of the &#8220;Coolest 50 Kiwis Ever&#8220;. \u00a0The paper admits that its list is subjective. \u00a0It has a reasonable percentage of women and M\u0101ori but, like many of these kinds of lists, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17527,1],"tags":[33975],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-piece","category-uncategorized","tag-victorian-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}