{"id":465,"date":"2010-07-12T03:43:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T21:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=465"},"modified":"2017-11-05T08:03:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T08:03:48","slug":"less-macho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/australia\/465","title":{"rendered":"Less Macho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I overheard two suits talking on the morning train last week.  You&#8217;d expect these dapper, corporate types to be talking about deals they&#8217;ve clinched, chicks they scored with over the weekend or at least the World Cup.  No, they were swapping tips for getting dishes clean.  What&#8217;s happened to the Aussie macho these days?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still trying to get a handle on the term &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordspy.com\/words\/metrosexual.asp\">metrosexual<\/a>&#8216; &#8211; a man demonstrating some of the traits normally ascribed to homosexuals (eg well-groomed), but is actually heterosexual &#8211; but I didn&#8217;t get the impression that it applied to these men.  It just seems to be part of the new gender equality and sharing of housework that is life in modern Australia.<\/p>\n<p>I must admit to keeping half an ear on the conversation to see if they started bitching about what kind of trash Lindsay Lohan was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I overheard two suits talking on the morning train last week. You&#8217;d expect these dapper, corporate types to be talking about deals they&#8217;ve clinched, chicks they scored with over the weekend or at least the World Cup. No, they were swapping tips for getting dishes clean. What&#8217;s happened to the Aussie macho these days? I&#8217;m&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/australia\/465\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Less Macho<\/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\/465"}],"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=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1739,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}