{"id":36459,"date":"2018-04-11T16:44:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T16:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=36459"},"modified":"2018-04-11T16:45:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T16:45:50","slug":"never-write-us-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/04\/never-write-us-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Never write us off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bang them sticks<br \/>\nsing our hearts out<br \/>\nLight the fire<br \/>\nAnd watch the Roo&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>Art work<br \/>\nin  tradition<br \/>\nThat has to be<br \/>\ngood news<\/p>\n<p>The northern psrt<br \/>\nof Australia<br \/>\nIs where<br \/>\nwe make our home<\/p>\n<p>How we are<br \/>\nthe people<br \/>\nFree<br \/>\nAnd able to roam<\/p>\n<p>With aspects<br \/>\nof the positive<br \/>\nIndigenous<br \/>\nall through<\/p>\n<p>Weve taken<br \/>\nknocks a plenty<br \/>\nBut still<br \/>\ncome shining through<\/p>\n<p>Born in our<br \/>\ngreat country<br \/>\nOur native<br \/>\ntitle we<\/p>\n<p>Hear the<br \/>\nkookaburra<br \/>\nOut there<br \/>\non the tree<\/p>\n<p>Raised up<br \/>\nand impassioned<br \/>\nI make stuff<br \/>\nthats my thing<\/p>\n<p>Axes spears<br \/>\nand boomerangs<br \/>\nIt still makes<br \/>\nmy heart sing<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m old<br \/>\nand indigenous<br \/>\nBut our culture<br \/>\nlives on we<\/p>\n<p>Are the truest<br \/>\nspirit<br \/>\nIts where<br \/>\nwe have to be<\/p>\n<p>We have always<br \/>\nloved to live<br \/>\nWhere our<br \/>\nspirit flies<\/p>\n<p>We dance<br \/>\nour beads our masks<br \/>\nour songs<\/p>\n<p>We embrace<br \/>\nthe skies<br \/>\nCaring sharing<br \/>\ndaring<\/p>\n<p>To be ourselves<br \/>\nfor we<br \/>\nLive now<br \/>\nin Undara<br \/>\nAs free men<br \/>\nactually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bang them sticks sing our hearts out Light the fire And watch the Roo&#8217;s Art work in tradition That has to be good news The northern psrt of Australia Is where we make our home How we are the people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/04\/never-write-us-off\/\">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":[344,173,89,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-australia-and-the-epic-journeys","category-indigenous-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36459","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=36459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36461,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36459\/revisions\/36461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}