{"id":273,"date":"2008-02-14T14:27:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T03:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/02\/saying-sorry\/"},"modified":"2012-02-23T16:30:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T05:30:56","slug":"saying-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/02\/saying-sorry\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying sorry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of Australia, Kevin Rudd\u00a0says sorry to the stolen generation and their families and communities.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B1jeWeDpc68&amp;rel=1]<\/p>\n<p>This apology may not be a business or writing topic, but it is important and is a significant moment in Australian history. I was proud to hear our Prime Minister say those words, to express the sorrow so many of us feel at what was done to those Aboriginal children and their families.<\/p>\n<p>The suffering of those families is more than I can imagine, and I hope that this apology can help a little of that pain and bring us closer together as Australians.<\/p>\n<p>I was shocked to realise the practice of removing Aboriginal children from their families was done as recently as the 1970s &#8211; 7 decades of it is 70 years too many.<\/p>\n<p>It is my hope that a positive change will arise from this apology &#8211; that people can heal, that positive actions will take place and that we will remember the unity and emotions of this momentous event.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to a new Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of Australia, Kevin Rudd\u00a0says sorry to the stolen generation and their families and communities. [youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B1jeWeDpc68&amp;rel=1] This apology may not be a business or writing topic, but it is important and is a significant moment in Australian history. I was proud to hear our Prime Minister say those words, to express the sorrow so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,50],"tags":[508,506,86,507],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-word-constructions","category-bit-off-track","tag-aboriginal","tag-apolology","tag-business","tag-rudd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3586,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/3586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}