{"id":68891,"date":"2026-05-17T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/17\/sway-a-crowd-wear-a-martyrs-crown-how-one-nsw-politician-went-from-scandal-to-political-success-and-wrote-a-playbook-still-used-today-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:00:00","slug":"sway-a-crowd-wear-a-martyrs-crown-how-one-nsw-politician-went-from-scandal-to-political-success-and-wrote-a-playbook-still-used-today-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/17\/sway-a-crowd-wear-a-martyrs-crown-how-one-nsw-politician-went-from-scandal-to-political-success-and-wrote-a-playbook-still-used-today-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Sway a crowd, wear a martyr\u2019s crown: how one NSW politician went from scandal to political success \u2013 and wrote a playbook still used today &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivwFBVV95cUxOZUZUaWZNN1hDLWJNUXYxUkZWd2w0RWNVOGhKV2FzcUkyMC1pd0xLb1oxS2pfbEdHUlRWOVBwMFpRT29taUptZ2l3VWdzNHh6NGZ6VnRLNXZhQzVWMFBiZHlGN0VaQmNtTTRwX3B0cDFCVVJFYk1maWZMR3k4Q2hZajJ5SENTeUJpaTBZazFIV1NpUUl2ZmlnSXVmM0g1c29iRk1vMUdVWmNhTUxDb0k2N2tOTzhzLThEcjI0MjVybw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Sway a crowd, wear a martyr\u2019s crown: how one NSW politician went from scandal to political success \u2013 and wrote a playbook still used today<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Guardian<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sway a crowd, wear a martyr\u2019s crown: how one NSW politician went from scandal to political success \u2013 and wrote a playbook still used today&nbsp;&nbsp;The&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/17\/sway-a-crowd-wear-a-martyrs-crown-how-one-nsw-politician-went-from-scandal-to-political-success-and-wrote-a-playbook-still-used-today-the-guardian\/\" class=\"read-more\">[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}