{"id":221882,"date":"2026-04-24T01:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=221882"},"modified":"2026-04-24T01:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:48:20","slug":"can-poetry-help-our-politics-there-was-a-time-in-australia-when-it-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=221882","title":{"rendered":"Can poetry help our politics? There was a time in Australia when it did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Curtin and his political nemesis Robert Menzies were united by their love of poetry. In fact, many great Australian leaders were drawn to verse as a source of relaxation and inspiration&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/national\/can-poetry-help-our-politics-there-was-a-time-in-australia-when-it-did-20260403-p5zl8d.html?ref=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_source=rss_feed\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Curtin and his political nemesis Robert Menzies were united by their love of poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221882-can-poetry-help-our-politics-there-was-a-time-in-australia-when-it-did.jpg",800,450,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221882-can-poetry-help-our-politics-there-was-a-time-in-australia-when-it-did-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221882-can-poetry-help-our-politics-there-was-a-time-in-australia-when-it-did-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221882-can-poetry-help-our-politics-there-was-a-time-in-australia-when-it-did-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221882-can-poetry-help-our-politics-there-was-a-time-in-australia-when-it-did.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221882-can-poetry-help-our-politics-there-was-a-time-in-australia-when-it-did.jpg",800,450,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221882-can-poetry-help-our-politics-there-was-a-time-in-australia-when-it-did.jpg",800,450,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221882-can-poetry-help-our-politics-there-was-a-time-in-australia-when-it-did.jpg",800,450,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221882-can-poetry-help-our-politics-there-was-a-time-in-australia-when-it-did.jpg",800,450,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221882-can-poetry-help-our-politics-there-was-a-time-in-australia-when-it-did-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/221883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}