{"id":77322,"date":"2017-11-22T12:21:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T01:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=77322"},"modified":"2017-11-22T12:21:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T01:21:54","slug":"kevin-rudd-youve-got-fire-belly-listen-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2017\/11\/22\/kevin-rudd-youve-got-fire-belly-listen-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Rudd: If you\u2019ve got the fire in your belly, listen to it and go with it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-77328 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-22-at-12.00.25-pm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"668\" height=\"403\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIf you\u2019ve got the fire in your belly, listen to it and go with it. But understand it ain\u2019t for the faint-hearted and there\u2019s going to be a lot of scar tissue on the way through.\u201d &#8211; Kevin Rudd<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">You might all remember the phrase Kevin &#8217;07. Back in 2007, Kevin Rudd was elected as Prime Minister of Australia, and again in 2013, and his passion for politics is part of what drove him to write a two-part autobiography. The first part,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/not-for-the-faint-hearted-kevin-rudd\/prod9781743534830.html\">Not for the Faint-hearted<\/a><\/em>, is out just in time for Christmas!\u00a0This is an optimistic book, written with passion, conviction and insight.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThis book is intended as a letter of encouragement for young people across the country who are considering a career in public policy and politics because it matters, because you can bring about sustainable change.\u201d &#8211; Kevin<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">How did a boy from Eummundi rise to the most powerful office in the country? Part one,\u00a0<em>Not for the Faint-hearted<\/em>, is all about the journey that lead Kevin to that very office, to becoming Prime Minister of Australia. 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But understand it ain\u2019t for the faint-hearted and there\u2019s going to be a lot of scar tissue on the way through.\u201d &#8211; Kevin Rudd You might all remember the phrase Kevin &#8217;07. Back in 2007, Kevin Rudd was elected as Prime Minister of Australia, and again in 2013, and his passion for politics is part of what drove him to write a two-part autobiography. The first part,\u00a0Not for the Faint-hearted, is out just in time for Christmas!\u00a0This is an optimistic book, written with passion, conviction and insight. \u201cThis book is intended as a letter of encouragement for young people across the country who are considering a career in public policy and politics because it matters, because you can bring about sustainable change.\u201d &#8211; Kevin How did a boy from Eummundi rise to the most powerful office in the country? Part one,\u00a0Not for the Faint-hearted, is all about the journey that lead Kevin to that very office, to becoming Prime Minister of Australia. Part two is yet to come and will cover what happened after the election of 2007. \u201cVery few of us are capable of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":77326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[6676],"tags":[2,6699,741,748,978,993,1007,8118,2615,8117,3056,8116,4320,7966,4434],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Untitled-design-45.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77341,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77322\/revisions\/77341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}