{"id":1020,"date":"2009-03-10T08:26:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T08:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2009-03-10T08:26:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T08:26:35","slug":"sir-john-the-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1020","title":{"rendered":"Sir John The Unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National govt., still in their just married phase, have announced that NZ is getting Knighthoods again. In the name of the Queen our worthies will once again be given the titles of Sir and Dame. These will replace the anaemic but functional titles we have had from 2000, Principal\/Distinguished Companion of the Order of Merit.<br \/>\nLeaving aside all the reasons why this isn&#8217;t a decision I like (see <a href=http:\/\/norightturn.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/against-knighthoods-ii.html>NRT for that<\/a>), it just strikes me as weird, an odd bit of electioneering when there&#8217;s no election coming up. There was no consultation, and no signal that this was coming &#8211; nothing I&#8217;ve noticed anyway. (My hazy memory is that Labour signalled its intentions to lose the old system a ways in advance, but I don&#8217;t remember any consultation then either. Anyone recall?)<br \/>\nNotably, the symbolism of this change sits uneasily with our view of ourselves. Is this the first time since WW2 that we&#8217;ve actually taken a step back closer to the Crown, rather than away from it towards our own identity?<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t get it. Is it a personal thing for Key, that he wanted to re-establish these symbolic ties with the Queen? What am I missing about this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National govt., still in their just married phase, have announced that NZ is getting Knighthoods again. In the name of the Queen our worthies will once again be given the titles of Sir and Dame. These will replace the anaemic but functional titles we have had from 2000, Principal\/Distinguished Companion of the Order of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1020\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sir John The Unexpected<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-political"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-gs","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}