{"id":608,"date":"2014-07-18T20:37:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T08:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/?p=608"},"modified":"2014-07-18T20:37:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T08:37:42","slug":"608","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/608\/","title":{"rendered":"New Biography on Richard Seddon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/files\/2014\/07\/photo-34.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-607 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/files\/2014\/07\/photo-34-e1405671305666-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo-34\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/files\/2014\/07\/photo-34-e1405671305666-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/files\/2014\/07\/photo-34-e1405671305666-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/files\/2014\/07\/photo-34-e1405671305666.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Richard Seddon was a colossal figure in New Zealand politics up to his death in 1906. \u00a0His Liberal Party was New Zealand&#8217;s\u00a0first modern political party; his government introduced old age pensions and votes for women, as well as an\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">industrial conciliation and arbitration system. \u00a0Seddon was able, for much of his time as Prime Minister, to gain the support from a wide range of the political spectrum, at the same time that the rest of the world marvelled at the country&#8217;s &#8220;socialist&#8221; experiments.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal\">It has been almost 60 years since an authoritative biography of Seddon has\u00a0appeared, R.M. Burdon&#8217;s <em>King Dick<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 Until now! \u00a0CROCC member, Professor Tom Brooking&#8217;s latest book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.co.nz\/products\/9780143569671\/richard-seddon-king-gods-own\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Richard Seddon: King of God&#8217;s Own<\/em><\/a> has just been published by Penguin Books, and gives us fresh insights into &#8220;the Life and Times of New Zealand&#8217;s Longest-serving Prime Minister&#8221;. \u00a0 Congratulations, Tom.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Seddon was a colossal figure in New Zealand politics up to his death in 1906. \u00a0His Liberal Party was New Zealand&#8217;s\u00a0first modern political party; his government introduced old age pensions and votes for women, as well as an\u00a0industrial conciliation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17472,165],"tags":[17474,34001,33999,34000,34002,17458,34004,33998,34003],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centre-news","category-publications","tag-crocc","tag-gods-own-country","tag-king-dick","tag-king-of-gods-own","tag-liberal-party","tag-new-zealand-history","tag-new-zeland-political-history","tag-richard-seddon","tag-tom-brooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}