{"id":3499,"date":"2019-09-13T10:17:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T00:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2020-03-13T10:18:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T23:18:53","slug":"bridging-the-strait-with-pirrie-shiel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/program\/bridging-the-strait-with-pirrie-shiel\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridging the Strait with Pirrie Shiel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for our next Maritime &amp; History Talk!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBridging the Strait \u2013 A Salute to the first man to fly across Bass Strait\u201d by Pirrie Shiel is a tribute to Tasmanian born Lt Arthur L. Long. Come along to find out about the family, life and times of a young man who served in World War 1 as a pilot. He had the foresight to imagine the post war possibilities of a future in aviation \u2013 most particularly in his home state.<\/p>\n<p>Copies of Bridging the Strait will be available to purchase on the evening, as well as \u2018UP in the air in Tasmania\u2019, a book by James Boag.<\/p>\n<p>This Maritime &amp; History Talk is brought to you by BSMC &amp; Stanley Museum<\/p>\n<p>When: Tuesday 17 September, 7 pm<br \/>\nWhere: 6 Gloucester Avenue<br \/>\nCost: Gold coin donation<br \/>\nBookings Essential: 03 6424 7100<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: National Library of Australia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for our next Maritime &amp; History Talk! \u201cBridging the Strait \u2013 A Salute to the first man to fly across Bass Strait\u201d by Pirrie Shiel is a tribute to Tasmanian born Lt Arthur L. Long. Come along to find out about the family, life and times of a young man who served in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}