{"id":30,"date":"2009-09-14T14:28:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T02:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/2009\/09\/14\/napoleon-bonaparte%e2%80%99s-surprising-influence-in-nz\/"},"modified":"2009-09-14T14:28:36","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T02:28:36","slug":"napoleon-bonaparte%e2%80%99s-surprising-influence-in-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Napoleon Bonaparte\u2019s surprising influence in NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What has Napoleon got to do with NZ? Lots! This country was settled in the early part of the 19th century, which was shortly after the Napoleonic Wars. Still fresh in the minds of the settlers, many places are named after victorious British Generals.<br \/>\n\tWellington is named after Lord Wellington, the overall commander of British forces. Then there are General Sir Charles Napier, Lt-General Sir Thomas Picton, General Lord Palmerston, Major-General Randoll Mackenzie and Major-General Sir William Ponsonby.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What has Napoleon got to do with NZ? Lots! This country was settled in the early part of the 19th century, which was shortly after the Napoleonic Wars. Still fresh in the minds of the settlers, many places are named after victorious British Generals. Wellington is named after Lord Wellington, the overall commander of British [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Napoleon Bonaparte\u2019s surprising influence in NZ - colinrealestate","description":"What has Napoleon got to do with NZ? Lots! This country was settled in the early part of the 19th century, which was shortly after the Napoleonic Wars. Still fr"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5532],"tags":[5533],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-estate-2","tag-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinrealestate.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}