{"id":326,"date":"2005-02-17T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=326"},"modified":"2005-02-17T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T16:03:00","slug":"there-was-movement-at-the-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"There was movement at the station &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; for the word had passed around<br \/>\nThat the colt from old Regret had got away,<br \/>\nAnd had joined the wild bush horses \u00e2\u20ac\u201d he was worth a thousand pound,<br \/>\nSo all the cracks had gathered to the fray.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; I could go on &#8211; I checked this morning on the Tube &#8211; I was the muttering woman between Farringdon and Euston Square at about 10.45 &#8211; and I can still recite the whole lot. It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/home.vicnet.net.au\/%7Eozlit\/snowy02.html#first\"> here<\/a> if you&#8217;re interested.<\/p>\n<p>(And if you&#8217;ve seen the movie you still have the read the poem &#8211; there&#8217;s only a faint relationship between the two.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no man from Snowy River, having fallen off more than enough horses to prove that, but I am deeply enmeshed in a likely move between flats at present, and the poem brings to mind rounding up estate agents, for which the phrase &#8220;mustering wild cats&#8221; might have been invented. <\/p>\n<p>So blogging has been a bit quiet lately, but I was inspired today by an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayinliterature.com\/today-ct.asp?id=2\/17\/2005\">Banjo Paterson<\/a>, which contains a full account of the origins of <em>Waltzing Matilda<\/em>, the unofficial national anthem. It has Scottish\/German\/left-wing union roots &#8211; don&#8217;t tell John Howard!<\/p>\n<p>(That link will only work for a couple of days.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; for the word had passed around That the colt from old Regret had got away, And had joined the wild bush horses \u00e2\u20ac\u201d he was worth a thousand pound, So all the cracks had gathered to the fray. &#8230; I could go on &#8211; I checked this morning on the Tube &#8211; I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalie-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}