{"id":61483,"date":"2019-05-17T11:27:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T11:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=61483"},"modified":"2019-05-17T11:27:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T11:27:10","slug":"australias-ex-pm-bob-hawke-dies-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/australias-ex-pm-bob-hawke-dies-at-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s ex-PM Bob Hawke dies at 89&#8242;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bob Hawke, a  transformative and charismatic left-wing lawmaker with a \u201clarrikin\u2019  streak who served as Australian Prime Minister from 1983 to 1991, died  on Thursday aged 89, his family said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday we lost Bob Hawke, a\n great Australian many would say the greatest Australian of the post-war\n era,\u201d his wife and former biographer Blanche d\u2019Alpuget said in a \nstatement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While others may have struggled to dismiss a \nreputation for boisterous, if well-meaning, behaviour, silver-haired \nHawke said it helped him win favour with working-class voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PM\n Scott Morrison hailed Hawke\u2019s ability to speak to all Australians. \u201cBob\n Hawke was a great Australian who led and served our country with \npassion, courage, and an intellectual horsepower that made our country \nstronger,\u201d he said on social media.\n\n<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Hawke, a transformative and charismatic left-wing lawmaker with a \u201clarrikin\u2019 streak who served as Australian Prime Minister from 1983 to 1991, died on Thursday aged 89, his family said. \u201cToday we lost Bob Hawke, a great Australian many would say the greatest Australian of the post-war era,\u201d his wife and former biographer Blanche d\u2019Alpuget [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61485,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61483\/revisions\/61485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}