{"id":323,"date":"2007-04-09T17:13:45","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T17:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2008-01-02T16:11:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T06:11:09","slug":"if-the-boots-dont-fit-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2007\/04\/09\/if-the-boots-dont-fit-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"If the boots don’t fit<\/i> redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(photo via the Canberra Times<\/span>)<\/p>\n

Speaking of sculptures, one of my first blog posts<\/a> was about Greg Taylor’s satirical bronze, If the boots don’t fit<\/em>, which depicted the prime minister as dwarf ANZAC. I got a bee in my bonnet, and tracked it all over town. I was pleased to see that its still doing the rounds<\/a>, and has most recently been placed on the high water mark on Horseshoe Bay at Bermagui, as part of the Bermagui Seaside Fair ‘Sculpture on the Edge’.<\/p>\n

Taylor is quoted as saying Bermagui now has “arguably the safest beach in the world.” “What terrorist is going to come ashore there? And there will be no global warming \u2013 the sea will not dare rise.”<\/p>\n

The best photos (and commentary!) I can find of the sculpture at Bermagui are by JohnG here<\/a>: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(photo via the Canberra Times) Speaking of sculptures, one of my first blog posts was about Greg Taylor’s satirical bronze, If the boots don’t fit, which depicted the prime minister as dwarf ANZAC. I got a bee in my bonnet, and tracked it all over town. I was pleased to see that its still doing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[667,666,1378,58,40,1358,1361],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-sculpture","tag-beach","tag-bermagui","tag-canberra","tag-greg-taylor","tag-john-howard","tag-politics","tag-sculpture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-5d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}