{"id":1010,"date":"2000-03-06T19:57:59","date_gmt":"2000-03-06T19:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2015-05-12T20:18:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T20:18:23","slug":"introduction-to-government-sold-out-at-van-dorp-and-dutch-queen-thanks-lynch-brothers-for-know-your-political-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/2000\/03\/06\/introduction-to-government-sold-out-at-van-dorp-and-dutch-queen-thanks-lynch-brothers-for-know-your-political-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Government sold out at Van Dorp and Dutch Queen thanks Lynch brothers for Know Your Political History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GREAT BAY (March 6, 2000) <\/strong>&#8212; Well before the workday got underway on Monday, March 6, 2000, copies of the book\u00a0<em>An Introduction to Government &#8211; Island territory of St. Maarten<\/em> by Louis Duzanson was sold out at Van Dorp and other book outlets and had to be re-stocked by day&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the people of St. Martin are responding to a book that is answering a serious and basic need to focus on the political structures that are governing their lives,&#8221; said J. Sample, vice president of House of Nehesi Publishers.<em>An Introduction to Government<\/em> looks like it could be House of Nehesi&#8217;s third popular title in less than one year on political ideas, activities, and structures in St. Martin.<\/p>\n<p>And while the people are making space in their homes, schools, and work places for\u00a0<em>An Introduction to Government<\/em>, another St. Martin book is getting attention from abroad. According to correspondence reaching the publisher only hours after the launch of\u00a0<em>An Introduction to Government<\/em>, Edgar and Julian Lynch, the authors of\u00a0<em>Know Your Political History<\/em>, recently received a royal word of thanks.<\/p>\n<p>The word of thanks came from E. Rhodius, director of the Cabinet of Dutch Queen, thanking the Lynch brothers on behalf of Queen Beatrix for the copy of\u00a0<em>Know Your Political History<\/em> that they had sent to her. Rhodius&#8217; official letter was sent to H. van Diemen, the Dutch government representative here.\u00a0<em>Know Your Political History<\/em> was published in December 1999, and ran out of stock at Van Dorp a couple of times in the first week of sales alone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREAT BAY (March 6, 2000) &#8212; Well before the workday got underway on Monday, March 6, 2000, copies of the book\u00a0An Introduction to Government &#8211; Island territory of St. Maarten by Louis Duzanson was sold out at Van Dorp and other book outlets and had to be re-stocked by day&#8217;s end. &#8220;I think the people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2000"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}