{"id":1853,"date":"2012-05-26T17:41:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T17:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2012-05-26T17:41:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T17:41:21","slug":"all-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/05\/all-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"All the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its really only 7 years<br \/>\nsince the Ghan went all the way<br \/>\nFrom Adelaide to Alice Springs<br \/>\nand then Darwin, and some say<br \/>\nThat it took 125 years<br \/>\nof true and brutal force<br \/>\nMen died to make it possible<br \/>\nothers say of course<br \/>\nmany men did perish<br \/>\nbacks broken in the fight<br \/>\nto lay this rail road<br \/>\nall those miles<br \/>\nand do it day and night<br \/>\n2 million concrete sleepers<br \/>\nthe weight of each<br \/>\nimmense<br \/>\nrailway lines that cracked<br \/>\nand bruised operatives<br \/>\nthe sense<br \/>\nof taking on this project<br \/>\nbrought music to the ears<br \/>\nof travellers aboard the Ghan<br \/>\nand the famous Cameleers<br \/>\nImagine just how hard it was<br \/>\nIn 1855<br \/>\nworking the camels through the outback<br \/>\nSome did not survive<br \/>\nthe hot sun<br \/>\nand the lack of water<br \/>\nwas an enormous strain<br \/>\nand so it was in 2004<br \/>\nThat the Ghan was the first train<br \/>\nto travel really all the way<br \/>\nand I am proud to say<br \/>\nthat I sat on one of its seats<br \/>\njust the other day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mulling over the history of the Ghan and its journey from Adelaide to Darwin <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/05\/all-the-way\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-and-the-epic-journeys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}