{"id":2751,"date":"2021-09-04T12:41:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T02:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?p=2751"},"modified":"2021-09-04T12:41:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T02:11:54","slug":"wattle-day-1st-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?p=2751","title":{"rendered":"Wattle Day – 1st September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On the 1st September each year we celebrate “Wattle Day”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tradition was born many years ago and has unfortunately slowly faded away. Of course we all still see the many wattles in flower at this time of year but we may not take the time to reflect on their place in our history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liz Hansman has updated her article on Wattle Day to include the “Wattle and Daub” method of early house construction. You can read about all things wattle by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the 1st September each year we celebrate “Wattle Day”. The tradition was born many years ago and has unfortunately slowly faded away. Of course we all still see the many wattles in flower at this time of year but we may not take the time to reflect on their place in our history. Liz … Continue reading “Wattle Day – 1st September”<\/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-In","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2294,"url":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?p=2294","url_meta":{"origin":2751,"position":0},"title":"Do you remember “Wattle Day”?","date":"August 15, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The 1st September is of course the first day of Spring, but do you know it is also \"Wattle Day\" in Australia? 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