{"id":539,"date":"2017-07-22T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2021-08-28T05:03:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T05:03:42","slug":"tim-wagg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Tim Wagg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.<br>\u2014L. P. Hartley, <em>The Go-Between<\/em> (1953)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ian Fraser quotes this line in the final episode of the 1996 documentary series <em>Revolution<\/em>, which discusses the free-market reforms instituted by the Fourth Labour and National Governments in the 1980s and early 1990s.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> In the context of the programme, the quotation evokes the gulf that separates the New Zealand of the earlier 20th century\u2014with its tightly managed economy and relatively high employment, but often stultifying parochialism\u2014and that of 1996\u2014economically liberal, more outward-looking and competitive, but arguably less equal. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamartgallery.org.nz\/past-exhibitions\/the-tomorrow-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamartgallery.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/AAG_Exhibition-Booklet-1Aug_Singlepages.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">download catalogue<\/a> with full text via the Adam Art Gallery Te P\u0101taka Toi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> The series is available in its entirety on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzonscreen.com\/title\/revolution-1996\/series\">NZ On Screen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.\u2014L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between (1953) Ian Fraser quotes this line in the final episode of the 1996 documentary series Revolution, which discusses the free-market reforms instituted by the Fourth Labour and National Governments in the 1980s and early 1990s.[1] In the context of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-tim-wagg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}