{"id":20580,"date":"2010-06-25T09:06:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T09:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/damien_murphy_australia_gets_its_first_female_pm\/"},"modified":"2010-06-25T09:06:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T09:06:02","slug":"damien_murphy_australia_gets_its_first_female_pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20580","title":{"rendered":"Damien Murphy: Australia gets its first female PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a day. Who would have thought they would live to see a female prime minister sworn into office by a female governor-general? And not only that. The man Julia Gillard vanquished for the top job, Kevin Rudd, declared that God was a goddess, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To the great God and creator of us all, I thank him \u201d\u201c or her \u201d\u201c as well,&#8221; Rudd said during a poignant, at times tearful, valedictory speech to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Gillard, 49, said before going to visit Quentin Bryce at Yarralumla she was well aware of being the first woman to become prime minister.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/politics\/what-a-day-australia-gets-its-first-female-pm-20100624-z3p7.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a day. Who would have thought they would live to see a female prime minister sworn into office by a female governor-general? And not only that. The man Julia Gillard vanquished for the top job, Kevin Rudd, declared that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20580\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,204,151,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-australia-nz","category-politics-in-general","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}