{"id":1216,"date":"2018-01-18T08:51:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T08:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2018-01-18T09:14:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T09:14:20","slug":"were-all-australian-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/?p=1216","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re All Australian Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.handsheldoutacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Banjo-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-162 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.handsheldoutacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Banjo-3-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>We&#8217;re All Australians Now by Banjo Paterson <\/em>is available as a picture book, with striking illustrations by Mark Wilson.\u00a0In 1915, Banjo Paterson wrote an open letter to the troops. This letter is now known as the poem &#8216;We&#8217;re All Australians Now&#8217;.\u00a0 In the poem he encourages Australians to fight together during World War 1<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8216;We&#8217;re not State children any more, <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>We&#8217;re all Australians now&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.handsheldoutacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Banjo-Book-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-161\" src=\"http:\/\/www.handsheldoutacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Banjo-Book-1-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The language is rich and the students will enjoy learning some of the Australian slang no longer heard.\u00a0\u00a0<em>&#8216;Hump his drum&#8217;&#8230;.<\/em>to carry a swag. Who would carry a swag and why? Are backpackers today\u00a0<em>&#8216;humping a drum&#8217;<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8216;Our old world diff&#8217;rences are dead,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Like weeds beneath the plough,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>For English, Scotch and Irish-bred<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>They&#8217;re all Australians now!&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If this is a poem about Australian soldiers why has Banjo referred to English, Scotch and Irish? So many layers to unpack in regards to our history &#8211; or use this simply as a picture book to remember those that went to war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re All Australians Now by Banjo Paterson is available as a picture book, with striking illustrations by Mark Wilson.\u00a0In 1915, Banjo Paterson wrote an open letter to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature","tag-anzac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbarkerstearoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}