{"id":1466,"date":"2014-06-08T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2023-08-29T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:00:08","slug":"overdose-on-1954-royal-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1466","title":{"rendered":"Overdose on 1954 Royal Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The national institutions&nbsp;in Canberra are&nbsp;right&nbsp;into the 60th anniversary of the&nbsp;Queen of Australia&#8217;s first tour downunder in 1954.&nbsp;The Museum of Australian Democracy has just opened &#8220;Happy and Glorious&#8221; complete with high teas and&nbsp;making a likeness of the Queen from Lego reputedly involving 2500 visitors (see below) while the National Museum of Australia showed a preview of new film about that tour and tried to&nbsp;raise funds to restore a Daimler used to transport the royals. WfaAR could think of&nbsp;more critical&nbsp;things for both to be&nbsp;spending money on&nbsp;including promotion of&nbsp;the Australian Republic, thus, as a matter of balance,&nbsp;we&nbsp;ask when their next serious exhibitions on this important&nbsp;subject will be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canberratimes.com.au\/act-news\/old-parliament-house-builds-queen-elizabeth-from-92000-lego-pieces-20140609-zs27m.html\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national institutions&nbsp;in Canberra are&nbsp;right&nbsp;into the 60th anniversary of the&nbsp;Queen of Australia&#8217;s first tour downunder in 1954.&nbsp;The Museum of Australian Democracy has just opened &#8220;Happy and Glorious&#8221; complete with high teas and&nbsp;making a likeness of the Queen from Lego reputedly&#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-1466","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\/1466","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=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1467,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}