{"id":21912,"date":"2010-11-05T21:22:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T11:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=21912"},"modified":"2010-11-05T21:23:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T11:23:49","slug":"slackbastard-is-mark-latham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=21912","title":{"rendered":"slackbastard is Mark Latham&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/ffximage\/2005\/09\/18\/430_latham18_copy,0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mark Latham is (a) slackbastard.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve given [Beazley] a bagging here, which he deserves. But the good thing about his being so conflict-averse is that he will do anything for anyone. He can&#8217;t say no. I call him an opportunist but maybe it&#8217;s the people around him suggesting opportunities that he can&#8217;t refuse. That settles it then: he&#8217;s a weak opportunist. (And I&#8217;m a slack bastard.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>~ Mark Latham, <em>The Latham Diaries<\/em>, Melbourne University Press (2005), pp.73&#8211;74<\/p>\n<p><em>See also<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianreview.net\/digest\/2001\/08\/healy.html\">Society vs academy? The social capital debate<\/a> (Karen Healy, August 3, 2001) | <a href=\"http:\/\/home.mira.net\/~andy\/works\/latham.htm\">Review: Mark Latham\u2019s <em>Civilising Global Capital<\/em><\/a> (Andy Blunden, May 2003) | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialcapitalgateway.org\/\">Social Capital Gateway<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Latham is (a) slackbastard. I&#8217;ve given [Beazley] a bagging here, which he deserves. But the good thing about his being so conflict-averse is that he will do anything for anyone. He can&#8217;t say no. I call him an opportunist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=21912\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[1065],"class_list":["post-21912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natas","category-media","tag-mark-latham-is-a-slack-bastard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-5Hq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21912"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21920,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21912\/revisions\/21920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}