{"id":233,"date":"2012-08-09T20:33:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T08:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/?p=233"},"modified":"2013-12-01T17:51:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T04:51:55","slug":"233","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"The Mary Wilson Conundrum or, NZ v. IRL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moving between Ireland and New Zealand reveals many coincidences.<\/p>\n

\"Emigrants
Emigrants Statue in Dublin, Ireland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Immigrants
Immigrants Statue at Nelson, NZ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Both are countries traditionally dependent on their\u00a0agricultural + tourism industries (‘we need to protect our clean green image!’)
\nBoth have 4.5 million people
\nBoth fundamentally influenced by English colonialism
\nBoth watchful of a bigger, domineering neighbour
\nBoth dramatically divided north and south<\/p>\n

Both have a ‘TV3’ showing cheap American cop shows<\/p>\n

Both let you tune your radio to a pro-business, low-tax neo-liberal radio station called ‘Newstalk’ where you’ll often hear the phrase, ‘we punch above our weight’.
\nIn both, you might switch to the BBC-flavoured national broadcaster to hear gentle, unionised voices chanting the forecasts and exchange rates, in English and either endangered native tongue, Maori or Gaeilge.<\/p>\n

Now it gets a bit wierd…. Keep listening to that national broadcaster, through the softly-toned Met Service forecasts, the farm prices and the sports, through 5pm and, Ireland or New Zealand, you’ll hear Mary Wilson take the mic…<\/p>\n

\"Irish<\/a><\/p>\n

Drivetime on RT\u00c9 Radio 1 with Mary Wilson<\/p>\n

\"Kiwi<\/a><\/p>\n

Mary Wilson presents Radio New Zealand National’s drive time news programme<\/p>\n

A coincidence? Hmmmm….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moving between Ireland and New Zealand reveals many coincidences. Both are countries traditionally dependent on their\u00a0agricultural + tourism industries (‘we need to protect our clean green image!’) Both have 4.5 million people Both fundamentally influenced by English colonialism Both watchful of a bigger, domineering neighbour Both dramatically divided north and south Both have a ‘TV3’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,42,7],"tags":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4677,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/4677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}