{"id":255,"date":"2007-02-06T09:29:01","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T03:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2007-02-06T09:29:01","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T03:29:01","slug":"australian-accent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/australia\/255","title":{"rendered":"Australian Accent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rented a car and drove up to Port Macquarie to see my parents over the weekend.  One advantage to renting a car is that the stereo is worth listening to, so I bought a few CDs to catch up on what I&#8217;ve missed while I&#8217;ve been away.  One of them was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missyhiggins.com\/\">Missy Higgins<\/a> &#8216;The Sound of White&#8217;.  A couple of years ago, friends sent me &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/shop.abc.net.au\/browse\/product.asp?productid=367082\">Home and Hosed<\/a>&#8216;, a Triple J live album of Australian artists.  Missy Higgins was the standout for me and the first album I looked for on returning.  It didn&#8217;t disappoint &#8211; and not just for the sweet, husky vocals and gentle, upbeat tunes.  Missy sings with an Australian accent.<\/p>\n<p>When I left, there were very few pop\/rock (in fact, none come to mind) bands that violated the Australian tradition of singing with American accents.  Now, Missy is just one of the many.  After a few weeks listening to JJJ, I think it&#8217;s fair to say that we&#8217;ve gained confidence in our accent and are proud to put it out there for the world to hear in song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rented a car and drove up to Port Macquarie to see my parents over the weekend. One advantage to renting a car is that the stereo is worth listening to, so I bought a few CDs to catch up on what I&#8217;ve missed while I&#8217;ve been away. One of them was Missy Higgins &#8216;The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/australia\/255\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australian Accent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}