{"id":416,"date":"1999-07-30T20:16:00","date_gmt":"1999-07-30T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=416"},"modified":"2023-08-31T21:52:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T11:52:03","slug":"30-july-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"30 July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a passionate speech in favour of the republic in Adelaide, Janet Holmes a Court nominated the current Governor-General, Sir William Deane, as the first President of Australia saying that he would be a marvellous, healing appointment which would overcome the fear factor for some people. She declined to rule out taking the position herself saying that it was a really difficult question to answer. She also said that it would be highly embarrassing for Australia if the referendum were lost and it would be a very long time before the issue was raised again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a passionate speech in favour of the republic in Adelaide, Janet Holmes a Court nominated the current Governor-General, Sir William Deane, as the first President of Australia saying that he would be a marvellous, healing appointment which would overcome&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7","wpcat-7-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","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=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2554,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}