{"id":48121,"date":"2022-09-02T11:58:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T02:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/sep\/02\/blunt-passionate-and-sometimes-reckless-new-zealands-newest-ambassador-has-rarely-been-diplomatic"},"modified":"2022-09-02T11:58:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T02:58:36","slug":"blunt-passionate-and-sometimes-reckless-new-zealands-newest-ambassador-has-rarely-been-diplomatic-henry-cooke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48121","title":{"rendered":"Blunt, passionate and sometimes reckless, New Zealand\u2019s newest ambassador has rarely been diplomatic | Henry Cooke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freshly appointed envoy to Ireland Trevor Mallard did much good in his time in parliament, but never shied from controversy \u2013 sometimes to his cost<\/p>\n<p> It is hard to find someone in New Zealand who does not have a strong opinion about Trevor Mallard.<\/p>\n<p>The man just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beehive.govt.nz\/release\/ambassador-ireland-appointed\">appointed ambassador to Ireland<\/a> will take up the post with a long list of controversies to his name, after decades as an MP and five years as speaker of New Zealand\u2019s house. Ireland can expect an envoy not cut from the usual bland diplomat mould \u2013 someone deeply loyal to his friends but recklessly impulsive with his enemies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/sep\/02\/blunt-passionate-and-sometimes-reckless-new-zealands-newest-ambassador-has-rarely-been-diplomatic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freshly appointed envoy to Ireland Trevor Mallard did much good in his time in parliament, but never shied from controversy \u2013 sometimes to his cost It is hard to find someone in New Zealand who does not have a strong opinion about Trevor Mallard.The ma&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1054,56,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-labour-party","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48122,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48121\/revisions\/48122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}