{"id":1274,"date":"2015-02-05T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2023-08-29T20:57:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T10:57:12","slug":"prince-phillip-knighthood-is-anachronistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"Prince Phillip Knighthood is Anachronistic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senator Lisa Singh says&nbsp;Australia&#8217;s collective shock on hearing&nbsp;the announcement&nbsp;underscores why the monarchy is an anachronism for&nbsp;us and how alien the concept of knighthoods is to our contemporary identity. She also comments that the Prime Minister and his government are looking backwards into the past focused on monarchical models. He is, she says, &#8220;leading a government of yesterdays men furiously advocating last century&#8217;s ideas&#8221;. WfaAR would make that the 19th rather than 20th century. Lisa Singh is a Labor Senator for Tasmania and co-convenor of the&nbsp; Australian Parliamentary&nbsp;Branch of Labor for an Australian Republic. [&#8220;The Prince Phillip Knighthood and the Australian Republic by Lisa Singh, The Diplomat, 5 February 2015]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2015\/02\/the-prince-philip-knighthood-and-the-australian-republic\/\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Lisa Singh says&nbsp;Australia&#8217;s collective shock on hearing&nbsp;the announcement&nbsp;underscores why the monarchy is an anachronism for&nbsp;us and how alien the concept of knighthoods is to our contemporary identity. She also comments that the Prime Minister and his government are looking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-17","wpcat-17-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","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=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}