{"id":225,"date":"2012-04-12T17:22:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T07:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/?p=225"},"modified":"2012-05-07T10:15:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:15:08","slug":"the-tale-of-a-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"The Tale of a Whale by Emma Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Tale of a Whale is a book that will not only change the way you think about places like North Head, it will also change the way you look at every place around you.\u201d <em>\u2014 <\/em>Aden Ridgeway, <em>NSW Senator<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The North Head area is of great significance to the Saltwater peoples of Sydney&#8217;s Northern Beaches. In Emma Lee&#8217;s book\u00a0she describes how the local people use it \u00a0as a place of ceremony and burial.<\/p>\n<p>Whales are powerful totems to the\u00a0\u00a0Saltwater peoples and appear in many rock engravings throughout the region.\u00a0<em>Gawura<\/em>\u00a0(pronounced ga-war-ah) from the\u00a0Eora (Sydney) language means \u201cwhale\u201d and is the name used for the North Head area.<\/p>\n<p>The Tale of a Whale\u00a0: Significant Aboriginal Landscapes of the Northern Beaches by Emma J. Lee with the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council<br \/>\nPublished in 2002<br \/>\nISBN\u00a01-875116-39-7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Tale of a Whale is a book that will not only change the way you think about places like North Head, it will also change the way you look at every place around you.\u201d \u2014 Aden Ridgeway, NSW Senator The North Head area is of great significance to the Saltwater peoples of Sydney&#8217;s Northern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whalespotter.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}