{"id":32,"date":"2004-03-24T09:59:57","date_gmt":"2004-03-23T22:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnsons.id.au\/wordpress\/?p=32"},"modified":"2004-03-24T09:59:57","modified_gmt":"2004-03-23T22:59:57","slug":"sharp-end-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnsons.id.au\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Sharp End of History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2004\/03\/23\/1079939647250.html\">http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2004\/03\/23\/1079939647250.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saw this very interesting article in the SMH today, that the sword that Francis De Groot used to prematurely open the Sydney Harbour Bridge has been &#8216;found&#8217; in Ireland.  I always found this incident to be one of those very quirky pieces of Australian history, although I never quite realised the wider social significance that was drawn out in this article. This, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2004\/03\/17\/1079199291685.html\">running gun battles between drunk parliamentarians <\/a>or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reidgroup.org\/articles\/2003\/0819_launchcam.shtml\">snide remarks to journalists<\/a> (see about half-way down that page) are the some of the best (i.e. funniest) things about Australian history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2004\/03\/23\/1079939647250.html Saw this very interesting article in the SMH today, that the sword that Francis De Groot used to prematurely open the Sydney Harbour Bridge has been &#8216;found&#8217; in Ireland. I always found this incident to be one of those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnsons.id.au\/?p=32\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsons.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsons.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsons.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsons.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsons.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsons.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsons.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsons.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsons.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}