{"id":1318,"date":"2015-05-26T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2023-08-29T21:09:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T11:09:16","slug":"plain-speaking-on-the-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"Plain Speaking on the Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sue Lappeman writes in the Gold Coast Bulletin and gets straight to the point. She says, &#8220;We long to be part of the modern world but then show ourselves up as unsophisticated hicks when confronted with anything more complex than a football game or singing competition.There are two topical issues guaranteed to bring on unimaginative and childish debates in this country: the republic and same-sex marriage. I\u2019m sorry but I just do not understand why both have not been embraced by a country that professes to be classless \u2014 in a good way \u2014 and tolerant. But it is 2015 and we are still tied to a monarchy that is nothing more than a tourist attraction in its own country.&#8221; Read Sue&#8217;s full article below [&#8220;It&#8217;s time Australia embraced the republic and same-sex marriage&#8221; by Sue Lappeman, Gold Coast Bulletin online, 26 May 2015]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au\/news\/opinion\/its-time-australia-embraced-the-republic-and-samesex-marriage\/news-story\/20646a16bbd6503a864aea13309f0385\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sue Lappeman writes in the Gold Coast Bulletin and gets straight to the point. She says, &#8220;We long to be part of the modern world but then show ourselves up as unsophisticated hicks when confronted with anything more complex than&#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-1318","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\/1318","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=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}