{"id":1225,"date":"2016-09-12T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2023-08-29T20:40:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T10:40:11","slug":"republic-about-belonging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1225","title":{"rendered":"Republic About Belonging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview on ABC Classic FM radio, composer Deborah Cheetham describes the main theme of her opera &#8220;Pecan Summer&#8221; as &#8216;belonging&#8217;. She says that this is a key element in all her work which focuses on Indigenous people and their struggles for recognition. WfaAR comments:\u00a0 Everyone wants to belong to something bigger than themselves. This is also a key theme among groups of contemporary Australians who feel lost but still search for a national identity while wondering if they recognise the society that they now find themselves in. Becoming a Republic is an important step is providing a sense of unity among people of many different backgrounds who have come to our country since 1788 joining with our First Peoples: their heritage going back 60,000 years is also our heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview on ABC Classic FM radio, composer Deborah Cheetham describes the main theme of her opera &#8220;Pecan Summer&#8221; as &#8216;belonging&#8217;. She says that this is a key element in all her work which focuses on Indigenous people and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-16","wpcat-16-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","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=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}