{"id":34,"date":"2009-01-03T20:46:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T10:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2015-02-23T16:03:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T06:03:44","slug":"beaten-by-a-blow-a-shearers-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/beaten-by-a-blow-a-shearers-story\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Beaten by a Blow&#8217; &#8211; A shearer&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis McIntosh&#8217;s riveting autobiography is well written, funny, thought-provoking and very, very poignant.  On top of that, it&#8217;s an exceedingly important historical record of shearing life from the 1970s to the early 1980s.  It&#8217;s these rural cultural aspects that I enjoyed reading about most, because they are almost never discussed.  This book deserves a swag of prizes.  To read more details, refer to the detailed information listed in alphabetical order in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/other-info\/other-references\/music-films-books\/bush-biography-books\" title=\"Biography book page, with extra info on Beaten by a Blow\">Biographies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis McIntosh&#8217;s riveting autobiography is well written, funny, thought-provoking and very, very poignant. On top of that, it&#8217;s an exceedingly important historical record of shearing life from the 1970s to the early 1980s. It&#8217;s these rural cultural aspects that I enjoyed reading about most, because they are almost never discussed. This book deserves a swag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4279,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/4279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}