{"id":2294,"date":"2020-08-15T20:35:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T10:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2020-08-15T20:35:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T10:05:08","slug":"do-you-remember-wattle-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?p=2294","title":{"rendered":"Do you remember “Wattle Day”?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 1st September is of course the first day of Spring, but do you know it is also “Wattle Day” in Australia?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read about the history of Wattle Day<\/a> in one of our recent Gateways articles and don’t forget to do some browsing to see what else is new on our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are a facebook user, you can also check out our facebook page<\/a> for more interesting local and garden history and a multitude of contributors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 1st September is of course the first day of Spring, but do you know it is also “Wattle Day” in Australia? Read about the history of Wattle Day in one of our recent Gateways articles and don’t forget to do some browsing to see what else is new on our website. If you are … Continue reading “Do you remember “Wattle Day”?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNLq6-B0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2751,"url":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?p=2751","url_meta":{"origin":2294,"position":0},"title":"Wattle Day – 1st September","date":"September 4, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"On the 1st September each year we celebrate \"Wattle Day\". The tradition was born many years ago and has unfortunately slowly faded away. 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