{"id":403,"date":"2017-09-29T15:45:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T05:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jacktheinsider.com\/?p=403"},"modified":"2017-09-29T15:45:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T05:45:20","slug":"what-did-you-do-in-the-macklemore-war-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jacktheinsider.com\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"What did you do in the Macklemore War, Dad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"story-description\">\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-402 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jacktheinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Mackelmore-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jacktheinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Mackelmore-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jacktheinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Mackelmore-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jacktheinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Mackelmore-257x144.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.jacktheinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Mackelmore.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/>In years to come our children might ask, \u201cWhat did you do in the Macklemore War, Dad?\u201d My response will be, \u201cLike a lot of people, I fought and died just a little bit inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The noise around the same sex marriage voluntary postal survey has turned this country into a dismal, joyless place, where proponents and opponents quibble over meaningless symbolism like seagulls over a chip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">I confess I didn\u2019t have the slightest idea who Macklemore was until earlier this week. I would be perfectly happy to bathe in that ignorance today. I might even have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/national-affairs\/dutton-nrl-creating-precedent-for-social-issues-with-macklemore-song\/news-story\/5d86ec70c7a5ae59f90350af9d845540\">watched him perform in the NRL Grand Final pre-matc<\/a>h, wondered out loud who he was before going to the fridge and grabbing another beer before the kick off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">By the time the match ended and the premiership trophy was held aloft by the victorious captain, Macklemore\u2019s performance would have been a distant memory, rather like my knowledge of the 2004 coup d\u2019etat in Equatorial Guinea in that it was a long time ago and didn\u2019t really make a whole lot of difference to my life.<\/p>\n<p>Full column <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/opinion\/blogs\/what-did-you-do-in-the-macklemore-war-dad\/news-story\/973afdfc7d3934626db14840f488a2fe\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In years to come our children might ask, \u201cWhat did you do in the Macklemore War, Dad?\u201d My response will be, \u201cLike a lot &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-australian-politics","category-australian-society"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacktheinsider.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacktheinsider.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacktheinsider.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacktheinsider.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacktheinsider.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacktheinsider.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacktheinsider.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacktheinsider.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacktheinsider.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacktheinsider.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}