{"id":863,"date":"2014-05-13T15:31:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T05:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/?p=863"},"modified":"2014-05-13T15:31:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T05:01:40","slug":"oh-don","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/2014\/05\/oh-don\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Don"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It started innocently enough. In preparation for our launch of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/product.php?productid=1170&amp;cat=0&amp;page=1\">Don Dunstan, Intimacy and Liberty<\/a><\/em>, we&#8217;ve been throwing some costume ideas around the office. Seventies, defs. This is the man who made those hot pink shorts so famous (see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/product.php?productid=1170&amp;cat=0&amp;page=1\">book\u00a0cover<\/a> for proof). There&#8217;s also that mini yukata from his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/entertainment\/music\/pageant-drama-as-dunstan-quits-in-his-pyjamas\/story-e6freeuu-1111112444092\">resignation<\/a>. The paisley blazer at his 70th. Or whatever it is that&#8217;s going on <a href=\"http:\/\/resources2.news.com.au\/images\/2012\/08\/09\/1226447\/057894-120810-don-dunstan.jpg\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How would we ever live up to his sartorial standards?<\/p>\n<p>And then our very own Michael Deves dug out this little\u00a0gem:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/files\/newsletters\/MD_seventies.jpg?resize=445%2C540\" alt=\"Michael and Jenny, Santorini\" width=\"445\" height=\"540\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The white Levis! The leather bag! The sandals! The setting! What a man!<\/p>\n<p>This was promptly followed by Liz&#8217;s adorable schoolgirl photo from around the same time:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/files\/newsletters\/LN_seventies.jpg?resize=516%2C429\" alt=\"Claire, Deb and Liz 1972\" width=\"516\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If I had that blue dress, I would wear it every day \u2013 just by the by. Points for guessing which one&#8217;s Liz!<\/p>\n<p>To top it all,\u00a0Michael Bollen pulled out this doozy:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/files\/newsletters\/MB_seventies.jpg?resize=445%2C540\" alt=\"Michael, mid-seventies\" width=\"445\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t nothing can compete with that hair.<\/p>\n<p>And then, just to really get into the mood of the thing, Devesy called our attention to\u00a0this cultural time capsule:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tRwYQgk05DY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Someone better come check on us, because\u00a0WP HQ is timewarping <em>hard<\/em> right now.<\/p>\n<p>This is but a taste of some of the delights that will be on show at the launch of\u00a0<em>Don Dunstan, Intimacy and Liberty<\/em> on the 22 May.\u00a0Yes, we will be dressing up, and yes, it will be a riot \u2013 come join us for the fun!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/files\/newsletters\/DD_invite.jpg?resize=571%2C269\" alt=\"Don Dunstan launch invite\" width=\"571\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started innocently enough. In preparation for our launch of Don Dunstan, Intimacy and Liberty, we&#8217;ve been throwing some costume ideas around the office. Seventies, defs. This is the man who made those hot pink shorts so famous (see the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/2014\/05\/oh-don\/\">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":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":""},"categories":[80,191,77],"tags":[218,217,221,220,219],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-fun","category-from-the-archives","category-launches","tag-dino-hodge","tag-don-dunstan","tag-macarthur-park","tag-richard-harris","tag-seventies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4v1Of-dV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}