{"id":19,"date":"2010-03-30T15:32:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T02:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2010-08-10T22:10:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T10:10:04","slug":"from-the-beginning-to-the-latest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/?page_id=19","title":{"rendered":"From The Beginning To The Latest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Readers asked for the fiction posts to be available in chronological order, so here they are.<\/p>\n

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  1. The Great Leap Backwards<\/a> – Our protagonists return to Wellington after their OE.<\/li>\n
  2. The Lay of the Land<\/a> – Nerves and nostalgia.<\/li>\n
  3. A Kelburn Matriarch <\/a>– Wilhelmina Wellington at gale force.<\/li>\n
  4. Meet Walter Wellington <\/a>-\u00c2\u00a0 One of the city’s finest beta males.<\/li>\n
  5. Who Is Will?<\/a> – The mystery of a self-made man.<\/li>\n
  6. Up The Coast<\/a> – Karin Kapiti, annoyingly righteous and annoyingly right.<\/li>\n
  7. Perfect Anywhere But Here<\/a> – Having it all with Helena Hutt.<\/li>\n
  8. Flat Hunting in Wellington <\/a>– The sheer hell of it.<\/li>\n
  9. Not An Interview<\/a> – But just as nervewracking.<\/li>\n
  10. Wellington Hair <\/a>– Step away from the straightening iron.<\/li>\n
  11. Moore Wilson’s<\/a> – Shock, envy, and ambition among the arugula.<\/li>\n
  12. Reunited<\/a> – Meet Winona’s new best friend, Willow.<\/li>\n
  13. The Good Day<\/a> – The components of the ideal Wellington Good Day.<\/li>\n
  14. But We Just Got Here<\/a> – What do you mean, you’re moving to Australia?<\/li>\n
  15. Fun After All<\/a> – Saved by the bogan bartender.<\/li>\n
  16. My Welly Valentine<\/a> – Romance, Wellington style.<\/li>\n
  17. Wellington Men I: The Best Mate <\/a>– Sensible bogan guys improve with age.<\/li>\n
  18. Wellington Men II: The Cad <\/a>– How a man can get away with treating women so very badly in Wellington.<\/li>\n
  19. Wellington Men III: The Export <\/a>– A lanky Yankee software expert with the hottest job in town.<\/li>\n
  20. The Waiting Space<\/a> – One of those flats that you live in when you’re not planning to stay terribly long.<\/li>\n
  21. Celebrity Sighting<\/a> – Don’t make eye contact…don’t say anything…just act like a perfectly normal person and start texting…<\/li>\n
  22. Unbrunched<\/a> – Willow as a Sunday morning singleton.<\/li>\n
  23. Landlord’s Perogative <\/a>– What landlords get to do in Wellington, and who they do it to.<\/li>\n
  24. The Guardian Sphinx <\/a>– Riddle me one job interview, Wellington-style.<\/li>\n
  25. Craft Fair Chaos<\/a> – Are craft fairs still special when there’s one every weekend and every other woman is cranking out felt owls?<\/li>\n
  26. Makes A House A Kiwi Home<\/a> – What does? A lemon tree and a cat.<\/li>\n
  27. The Department of Stodge<\/a> – A government department that is kicking it old school interviews Winona.<\/li>\n
  28. Rites of Passage<\/a> – Winona finds out what she’s made of, and meets Wellington’s youngest cafe critic.<\/li>\n
  29. The Starfish <\/a>– Putting the psycho in psychogeography, and a connection between Willow and Wayland.<\/li>\n
  30. My Squalor Was More Squalid<\/a> – Winona meets the coolest of the cool, Ulrika.<\/li>\n
  31. The Flat of Legend<\/a> – Once upon a time, on a Te Aro Street, there was an enchanted flat.<\/li>\n
  32. 1 BR Avail, Hataitai, Share W\/Prof F<\/a> – Willow’s flatmate-hunting travails.<\/li>\n
  33. It’s About Time<\/a> – Winona joins the staff of the Department of Stodge.<\/li>\n
  34. Bogan 3.0: Our Bogans, Ourselves<\/a> – Bogans and government go surprisingly well together.<\/li>\n
  35. Mud and Petals<\/a> – What it takes to stand out from a rainy mass of commuters.<\/li>\n
  36. Any Way The Wind Blows <\/a>– Will is subject to influences.<\/li>\n
  37. Winona Woolgathers <\/a>– When a Wellington party doesn’t gel.<\/li>\n
  38. An Inevitable American<\/a> – Meet Jennifer, Yankee expat, and learn more about her and her uterus.<\/li>\n
  39. Frankie’s Friday<\/a> – Queer life through the eyes of Winona’s co-worker, Frankie.<\/li>\n
  40. Not A Jolly Holiday <\/a>– A bartender’s Queen’s Birthday.<\/li>\n
  41. Rug Up, Mate: Wellington Storm Wear Strategies<\/a> – Meet Layer Lady, Parka Girl, The Bogan In Winter, and more.<\/li>\n
  42. An Actual Conversation<\/a> – It’s hard finding time to catch up with friends in Wellington.<\/li>\n
  43. Hutt Chub<\/a> – Wellingtonians tend to be thin. Other areas…<\/li>\n
  44. It Only Happened The Once <\/a>– “I make out with one girl at a party and the next thing I know I’m That Lesbian Bartender.”<\/li>\n
  45. Happy…Midwinter…Thing: Matariki Madness <\/a>– We’d like to celebrate midwinter, if only we knew how.<\/li>\n
  46. Qui Audet Adipiscitur <\/a>– Who watches the watchers when Winona starts thinking of vengeance?<\/li>\n
  47. Our Scum<\/a> – The problem when someone’s acting like scum in Wellington.<\/li>\n
  48. If a budget falls in the forest and nobody spends it<\/a> – The madness of end-of-year spending in government departments.<\/li>\n
  49. Auckland Mysteries<\/a> – Why is a Wellingtonian sexier in Auckland?<\/li>\n
  50. Rusticated <\/a>– Country guests come to Kelburn.<\/li>\n
  51. Rusticated II, or, Bacon Futures<\/a> – The next generation of country guests, complete with survivalist low-food-miles BLAT.<\/li>\n
  52. Rusticated III: Seen at the Market<\/a> – Rural traders prefer Wellington money, and survivalist meets dream girl.<\/li>\n
  53. Leave Town During The Film Festival? Are You Mad? <\/a>I mean, really!<\/li>\n
  54. The Sighting<\/a> – Heartstrings get pulled by Wellington poverty.<\/li>\n
  55. A Flower for Vicky<\/a> – Winona has a moment with the Queen Victoria statue.<\/li>\n
  56. What Snow Is, and Will’s New Passion<\/a> – Between two lovely women, a bloke falls passionately for…a car.<\/li>\n
  57. Unrecognizable for a Night<\/a> – Shimmer, glamour, nightlife – is it really Willow, is it really Wellington?<\/li>\n
  58. The Escape Plan <\/a>– Shut-ins plan how to get away from the cruel lashes of winter.<\/li>\n
  59. How Do You Solve a Problem Like Ulrika?<\/a> – Handling a rival in Wellington’s tiny social terrarium.<\/li>\n
  60. The Wind Up <\/a>– What is it that’s making Will act all blokey?<\/li>\n
  61. Nerdxhaustion<\/a> – Being a geek didn’t used to be this tiring.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Readers asked for the fiction posts to be available in chronological order, so here they are. The Great Leap Backwards – Our protagonists return to Wellington after their OE. The Lay of the Land – Nerves and nostalgia. A Kelburn Matriarch – Wilhelmina Wellington at gale force. Meet Walter Wellington -\u00c2\u00a0 One of the city’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}