{"id":1034,"date":"2015-03-30T09:46:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T20:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2015-03-30T09:46:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T20:46:46","slug":"leading-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/2015\/03\/30\/leading-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>School of English and Media Studies Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing Thom Conroy will be appearing at the 2015 Auckland Writer\u2019s Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Novelists Graeme Lay and Thom Conroy have written about two figures in New Zealand\u2019s colonial past: Captain James Cook, the inspiration for Lay\u2019s recently completed fictional trilogy; and Ernst Dieffenbach, the free-spirited German appointed as surgeon and naturalist on the New Zealand Company\u2019s ship \u201cTory\u201d, who is at the heart of Conroy\u2019s novel <em>The Naturalist.<\/em> The two writers discuss their leading men and the process of mutating fact into fiction with Catriona Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/writersfestival.co.nz\/writer\/thom-conroy\">http:\/\/writersfestival.co.nz\/writer\/thom-conroy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School of English and Media Studies Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing Thom Conroy will be appearing at the 2015 Auckland Writer\u2019s Festival. Novelists Graeme Lay and Thom Conroy have written about two figures in New Zealand\u2019s colonial past: Captain James Cook, the inspiration for Lay\u2019s recently completed fictional trilogy; and Ernst Dieffenbach, the free-spirited German [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}