{"id":208,"date":"2020-07-31T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=208"},"modified":"2021-10-05T16:26:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T06:26:32","slug":"final-gasp-for-palace-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Final Gasp for Palace Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The noise generated by the Palace Letters had largely died down by the end of July but it made a brief reappearance in a piece by Good Weekend journalist&nbsp;Amelia Lester who discusses the taxing task of explaining to Americans why &#8220;a very nice lady in natty pastels is in charge of our country&#8221;. Already befuddled by koala bears, Vegemite and compulsory voting, this is beyond them. She astutely asserts: &#8220;There&#8217;s a reason no one outside Australia uses the term Head of State as much as we do. It&#8217;s to justify something that makes no sense&#8221; and finishes by concluding: &#8220;at least when we are a republic, we can say these are our mistakes to own, and to fix&#8221;. [&#8220;Our confusing &#8216;head of state&#8217; arrangements: time for a royal flush&#8221; by Amelia Lester, Sydney Morning Herald online, 31 July 2020]&nbsp; To read the article, click on the link below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/our-confusing-head-of-state-arrangement-time-for-a-royal-flush-20200626-p556hp.html\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The noise generated by the Palace Letters had largely died down by the end of July but it made a brief reappearance in a piece by Good Weekend journalist&nbsp;Amelia Lester who discusses the taxing task of explaining to Americans why&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","wpcat-5-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","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=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}