{"id":1420,"date":"2014-03-28T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2023-08-29T21:48:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T11:48:43","slug":"a-question-for-dame-quentin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1420","title":{"rendered":"A Question for Dame Quentin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rachael White asks why Quentin Bryce didn&#8217;t join the distinguished and exclusive group who have refused knighthoods. White says that titles have a long history of causing division &#8211; since the 1850s in fact. She also writes, &#8220;The outgoing Governor- General wishes to see an Australian child grow up to be a our first Australian-born head of state. It is in a society whose &#8216;true values&#8217; are not obscured by the social distinctions conferred by titles that she is most likely to get her wish.&#8221; Read her full article from the link below [ &#8220;Dame Quentin Bryce should have turned down her title&#8221; by Rachael White, The Guardian online, 27 March 2014]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/mar\/27\/quentin-bryce-knights-dames-australia\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachael White asks why Quentin Bryce didn&#8217;t join the distinguished and exclusive group who have refused knighthoods. White says that titles have a long history of causing division &#8211; since the 1850s in fact. She also writes, &#8220;The outgoing Governor-&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","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=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}