{"id":29383,"date":"2020-01-16T16:39:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T21:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29383"},"modified":"2020-01-16T16:41:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T21:41:07","slug":"my-reader-column-waltzing-matilda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29383","title":{"rendered":"My Reader column, Waltzing Matilda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d2qru3puhm7uxm.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/image\/article\/019\/332\/19332\/header_custom\/19332_16215_690_Welty_1084.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It begins:<\/p>\n<p>Everything about Down Under appealed to me. Aussies were like a second version of Americans, open, unpretentious and they loved America. We snookered them in to fighting with us in Vietnam. <\/p>\n<p>To continue to my Dad&#8217;s steamed up car <a href=\"http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2020\/01\/16\/19332_waltzing_matilda\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It begins: Everything about Down Under appealed to me. Aussies were like a second version of Americans, open, unpretentious and they loved America. We&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,19,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29385,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29383\/revisions\/29385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}