{"id":1134,"date":"2017-09-29T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2023-04-13T21:17:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T11:17:15","slug":"narrative-of-a-nation-in-leadership-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1134","title":{"rendered":"Narrative of a Nation in &#8220;Leadership Houses&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WfaAR attends a symposium &#8220;Narratives of Nations&#8221; held by The Australiana Fund and The White House Historical Association at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. This fascinating afternoon with guest speaker, Dr Curtis Sandberg, Director of the David M Rubenstein National Centre for White House History and Senior Vice President of Educational Resources of The White House Historical Association led WfaAR to deeply ponder the significance of\u00a0the symbolism and history\u00a0embedded in The White House that is without\u00a0parallel in Australia.\u00a0We have more &#8220;leadership residences&#8221;, four in all, but they are invisible to the population and not endowed with the same\u00a0mystical qualities of\u00a0deeply held nationalism and historical intrigue as the\u00a0American White House is, not to date anyway. Of further interest was the information\u00a0imparted\u00a0about the practical\u00a0education programs run by The White House Historical Association, principally directed at teachers, to incorporate White House themes and references\u00a0in their\u00a0lesson plans across all\u00a0curriculum subjects.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WfaAR attends a symposium &#8220;Narratives of Nations&#8221; held by The Australiana Fund and The White House Historical Association at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. This fascinating afternoon with guest speaker, Dr Curtis Sandberg, Director of the David M&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15","wpcat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}