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AFTERWORD <\/strong>– The lost history of Evandale 1821-1848: A pivotal time and place of early Tasmania and Australia?<\/strong> [Along with the related \u2018forgotten story of Kennedy Murray\u2019, also<\/em> worth celebrating like recently recovered memories about KM\u2019s eminent grandson Harry Murray VC)?]\u00a0 \u00a0[Added to the Prosperous book on 19\/2\/2025 – appearing in paperback and hard cover as well as ebook versions of the Prosperous book ordered after that date]\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

After researching, writing up, and also going to a lot of editing and formatting trouble to get this book \u2018published\u2019, I realised more clearly two related points. One was how \u2018the forgotten story of Kennedy Murray<\/em>\u2019 was closely linked to and explained by the related sagas of: (a) the VDL (early Tasmanian) government\u2019s failure before 1848 to \u2018gazette\u2019 the evidently large town that had emerged over previous decades in the district known at that time as Morven [and to provide a formal town grid plan (as required policy at the time) for the emerging town that included a plan of allotments that could be bought and sold by the many local residents], and (b) how in the 1830s a significant emancipist village developed on Murray\u2019s Prosperous farmland that grew even larger at the time of the similarly \u2018covered-up\u2019 and largely forgotten or ignored Evandale-Launceston Water Scheme (despite how this was in many ways – as has been recently \u2018re-discovered\u2019 -one of the great early projects of Colonial Australia).<\/p>\n

As also further discussed below, the second related point that occurred to me was that the \u2018lost history of Evandale\u2019 was not just a pivotal and foundational (as well as exemplary) part of early Tasmanian history that has largely been lost until now. The VDL history of the \u2018Arthurite period\u2019 arguably included other elements beyond the repressive Port Arthur Penitentiary-focused convict colony and the sad tale of the general \u2018extinction\u2019 of the indigenous Tasmanians (\u2018assisted\u2019 also beyond the so-called \u2018Black Wars\u2019). [The \u2018Arthurite period\u2019 in history arguably extended some years beyond Governor Arthur\u2019s 1836 recall to London – when \u2018Arthurites\u2019 such as John Montagu still dominated VDL governance].<\/p>\n

Long before the formal end of convict transportation to NSW in 1840, the mantle of early Colonial Australia as \u2018penal colony\u2019<\/em> had generally shifted from Sydney to Hobart. This coincided with the appointment of Arthur to replace Sorell as the Lieutenant-Governor of VDL in 1824 with a related brief from the London Colonial Office in the wake of the Bigge Commission of Inquiry. That Inquiry had seen the 1821 recall of Governor Macquarie and a related attempt to reverse many of his fair and enlightened policies (especially those relating to both the emancipists and what in chapter 11 we have referred to as the \u2018Bunyip aristocracy\u2019 in subsequent Australian history). Even the transition in NSW in the 1820s and 1830s to a \u2018main focus\u2019 rather on the pastoralist industries of a \u2018wool-based economy\u2019 was largely replicated in VDL over those two key decades. How this happened was pivotal to all that followed. This was especially so in the northern VDL settlements centred largely on the emerging future Evandale district as well as the adjoining Norfolk Plains towns such as Longford and \u2018central midlands\u2019 towns such as Campbell Town to the South.<\/p>\n

There is a case we think can be made that the \u2018lost history of Evandale\u2019 was also a pivotal time and place in early Australia generally \u2013 as well as more specifically in relation to early VDL\/Tasmanian history. Not just this, but it\u2019s \u2018lost history\u2019 that can and should (we also think) be celebrated as well as remembered as an exemplary foundation of many later developments in largely \u2018native-born\u2019 modern Australian history and society. Kennedy Murray\u2019s vision of a potential, sharable and fairer future \u2018prosperity\u2019 based on a meritocracy rather of \u2018universal birthright\u2019 as well as \u2018hard work\u2019 was largely built in those \u2018lost decades\u2019 on the potential of the emancipists that was earlier recognised and initially encouraged by Macquarie. This was before that \u2018vision\u2019 was then repressed, obstructed, and denied by the British Colonial office as well as a further emerging \u2018bunyip aristocracy\u2019 of entitled elites of mainly \u2018English gentleman landowners\u2019. This elite were given privileged treatment and benefits and other settler incentives largely denied to the emancipists and other settlers as well as the indigenous inhabitants of the land. In VDL this group continued to have the benefit of free convict labour as well as other privileged \u2018settler incentives\u2019 well after such benefits were increasingly \u2018reined in\u2019 by NSW governments from the mid 1820s.<\/p>\n

Was the \u2018lost history\u2019 of Evandale (also known as the \u2018town they forgot to gazette\u2019 ) lost by design? <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the first VDL Census undertaken in 1842, \u2018Morven\u2019 was still one of the larger towns of early Tasmania. This was almost five years after the end of the \u2018magnificent Evandale-Launceston Water Scheme\u2019<\/em> (see chapter 6). This had been one of the great projects of early Colonial Australia (and indeed the British empire to that time) that also for perhaps related reasons became \u2018lost VDL\/Tasmanian history\u2019 \u2013 likely not just by design, but for related reasons perhaps? In 1837 the future Evandale may well have been briefly bigger than Launceston in population with bustling local farming and government project activity that attracted many \u2018roaming emancipists\u2019 (plus \u2018ticket-of-leave\u2019 convicts) to the town. They had been drawn by opportunities linked to the Water Scheme as well as the servicing of one of the Colony\u2019s most prominent agricultural as well as pastoralist areas at that time. Despite it being announced policy in 1834 to provide surveyed \u2018town plans\u2019 and related \u2018allotment grids\u2019 to all emerging towns in VDL, this never happened at Evandale before or after the verifiable accelerated growth of the town in the mid-1830s.<\/p>\n

So, unlike other emerging 19th<\/sup> Century VDL towns at the time, Evandale never got a formal grid plan \u2013 and only partially did so much later on. This was long after the town was \u2018gazetted in retrospect\u2019 in 1848. From 1821-1848 it (initially the emergent \u2018Prosperous village\u2019) really was the \u2018town with no name\u2019 by apparent \u2018Arthurite\u2019 design. [Ironically this is evidently one of the reasons that generally the original \u2018historic Evandale village\u2019 has largely survived intact until today as a charming physical record of this lost history]. In 1834 it had been the center of both the \u2018new Evandale Parish\u2019 and the \u2018new Morven police district\u2019 – both linked to apparent efforts by Arthur to make the town and the wider Launceston districts (Cornwall County) related networked models of his Anglican Parish\u2019 vestry plans for the 1836 VDL County system. The importance of Evandale in this scheme apparently lay in being a planned model to make \u2018invisible\u2019 any other emerging \u2018emancipist towns\u2019 in the future Tasmania. The impending 1837 VDL \u2018Church Act\u2019 (replicating that of NSW the previous year) made these related models largely redundant.<\/p>\n

In this way there were a number of related historical controversies at play that were apparently part of a general \u2018Evandale coverup\u2019 by the then VDL government \u2013 or at least by what some have called the \u2018cabal\u2019 of self-interested Arthurites dominating local as well as Colony-wide governance at the time. This demonstrably involved the local \u2018Morven magistracy\u2019 (e.g. see chapters 6 and 11). This ostensible historical erasure included (a) the \u2018sham\u2019 1843 Evandale village plan at Blanchfield in the \u2018middle of nowhere\u2019 (one of the demonstrably inaccurate or even \u2018false\u2019 LIST maps still up on Tasmanian government websites today), and (b) the 1843 \u2018give away\u2019 of the existing town center \u2018land lots\u2019 (on which a number of businesses and land sales can be verified as being in existence before this)\u00a0 to a new settler complicit also given an approved survey plan to immediately sell off existing sites for personal profit (which he did before being challenged by other \u2018owners\u2019). This new settler was someone from the UK who had just become an ordained Presbyterian minister soon after he got \u2018off the boat\u2019 (i.e. the \u2018Russell Street scandal\u2019).<\/p>\n

This book has thus retraced the missing local history before Evandale was \u2018retrospectively gazetted in 1848\u2019 with earlier scant histories of the town wrongly suggesting that there was little or nothing really there before that time. As reported in this book, new evidence found has helped correct many other inaccurate historical accounts. In addition to how the town largely emerged mostly on Kennedy Murray\u2019s Prosperous farmland (and partly on the adjoining farm hamlet also of his brother-in-law and neighbour George Collins) after 1821, this includes (a) how Kennedy Murray built one of the first rural schools in VDL c1830 (which Arthur is on record as having visited in 1834 and lauded then as a model for the colony), and (b) how the celebrated \u2018Evandale Subscription Library\u2019 of the 1840s was mainly a Murray family affair from the start (run from the Murray Anjou Villa School by his daughter Annie and son-in-law John Saffery Martin). Evidence was found to also correct a number of other historical controversies and lost \u2018scandals\u2019. This included those involving surveyor explorer G.W. Evans, VDL Governor Arthur, the Launceston Water Scheme and a host of other characters including Church of Scotland minister Robert Russell, the long-term leader of the \u2018Morven magistracy\u2019 James Cox of Clarendon, and the Scott brothers (Thomas and James) who were government surveyors for Northern VDL for almost half a century.<\/p>\n

The book reported also on other relevant findings. Above all it tells the story of how Murray was invited to become the main long-term district policeman and Anglican foundation Warden to help deal with the \u2018roaming emancipist\u2019 problem in the colony that so worried the government, the Northern settlement magistrates, and many local communities. This was a big problem at the time linked to the threat of lawlessness earlier associated with a spate of bushrangers in the late 1820s. As discussed earlier, Murray\u2019s successful \u2018solution\u2019 (which allowed Launceston to largely evade this \u2018problem\u2019) involved the plan to allow the \u2018roaming emancipists\u2019 (and also many \u2018ticket of leave convicts\u2019) to live locally on his own lands whilst they found work, built cottages and raised families in a district with vibrant local pastoralism and farming. Murray\u2019s efforts also allowed the wealthier pastoralists of the district who had retreated to Launceston to avoid the growing lawlessness of the northern midlands (like Captain Barclay and James Cox) to \u2018return\u2019 to a much safer place a few years after Murray first became the main lawman of the district.<\/p>\n

Initially \u2018everyone\u2019 (from Arthur through to Launceston Police Magistrate Lyttleton and then on to local magistrates like Cox) seemed to be pretty happy about this solution. But they then appeared to baulk at how this had entailed giving hope, opportunity and recognition to emancipated convicts (and a place for them in the future colony) \u2013 the very elements encouraged by Macquarie recommended against by the Bigge inquiry. Hence, the link between this and the apparent cover up of the \u2018lost history of Evandale\u2019 along the lines of the related suppression of knowledge about the convict-built Water Scheme. As noted above, multi-disciplinary engineers recently investigating this have said it was a \u2018magnificent\u2019 effort which was on track for success that would have survived and transformed the area until the present day and well beyond.<\/p>\n

As further discussed, a large Irish contingent of emancipists found refuge there under Murray\u2019s supportive watch. This included (for several years) John \u2018Red\u2019 Kelly (Ned\u2019s father) \u2013 who was personally assigned to Kennedy Murray in 1843. On the other hand, many other settlers came under Murray\u2019s influence including close family friend painter John Glover who usually stayed at Murray\u2019s Prosperous House on his regular trips to Evandale from Patterdale farm. As noted, it is believed by many (including local historian Karl Von Stieglitz) that he may actually have died in the original 1820 Prosperous cottage \u2013 contrary to a \u2018family matters\u2019 newspaper report at the time. This cottage still stands today hiding away today behind the 1836 mansion house version of Prosperous House (now known as Fallgrove) at 1 Logan Road, Evandale.<\/p>\n

Evandale 1821-1848 – a pivotal time and place also in early Australia <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Some of the later significance of the Norfolk Plains area of the early Northern VDL settlement(s) were anticipated by Governor Lachlan Macquarie on his \u20181811 VDL tour\u2019 \u2013 which included a well-known stop at the Honeysuckle Banks military camp (close to the future Evandale town). With the NSW colony still to venture across the Blue Mountains at that point (and still struggling with food security because of the challenges of farming around Sydney at the time), Macquarie described the \u2018very fine extensive rich Plains\u2019<\/em> near the Honeysuckle Banks camp (12\/12\/1811 journal entry). He evidently thought this could be a key future \u2018food bowl\u2019 for an emerging larger and later Australia. He was perhaps mainly referring to the challenge of finding suitable cropping and horticulture rather than pastoral farmlands on which to grow foodstuffs as well as the crops (wheat, etc.) also used for brewing legal or even illegal alcohol.<\/p>\n

Like other members of the early colonial government (and UK Colonial Office in London), Macquarie also underestimated both the farming limitations of the Australian soil (or its \u2018farming conditions\u2019) and the future economic sustainability of the initially generous \u201830 acre grants\u2019 (etc) which Macquarie (and also VDL governor Sorell) had made a better attempt to also make available to other emancipists (and not just the privileged elite at the time). This was as well as the remaining Norfolk Islanders when in c1811 he tried to entice them to move to a new \u2018Norfolk Plains\u2019 home so that the first Norfolk Island settlement could finally be closed down and completely so. Meanwhile, to ensure the basic food security of the colony (i.e. meat, food and other supplies also distributed by the Commissary stores in NSW and VDL) Macquarie had to practice \u2018realpolitik\u2019 by offering potential settlers (from the UK and elsewhere in the British empire as well as the local \u2018NSW Corps\u2019) \u2018larger than the regulation\u2019 free land grants for pastoralist (i.e. for wool as well as meat production from sheep and cattle mainly) as well as possible cropping or horticultural farming purposes.<\/p>\n

So it was that \u2018Norfolk Plains\u2019 and adjoining areas (especially Longford) were for some years early on prime sites used by Macquarie to entice and further reward such settlers with the (administrative and\/or farming) knowledge and\/or financial resources to ensure other Colony (as well as Launceston) commissary stores had adequate food supplies to distribute to emancipist and incoming free settlers as well as convicts. Two early Norfolk Plains beneficiaries of this who initially worked in the Sydney commissary (becoming close friends there) were Thomas Archer and James Cox \u2013 with Cox (in similar fashion to Archer also at nearby Longford) later becoming an influential \u2018Morven magistrate\u2019 as well as wealthy pastoralist in the future Evandale.<\/p>\n

Then there were the retiring military officers that were seeking a semi-retirement option (away from the cold climate and other challenges of the UK) of \u2018farming\u2019 on fertile productive lands thought to resemble \u2018English conditions\u2019 in the new emerging Australian colony. One of the first of these was the Kennedy Murray mentor and neighbour Captain Andrew Barclay. In similar fashion to Archer and Cox, Barclay was a very capable \u2018semi-retired\u2019 Scottish seafarer (formerly a British navy captain) who became one of the wealthiest and larger VDL farming landowners after demonstrating he had the organisational and farming skills to single-handedly make an important contribution to the Launceston commissary. Within a few years (partly due to G.W. Evans\u2019 1822 book with a key focus on the attractions of farming land in VDL) the then Morven districts of the future Evandale and adjoining areas had attracted an influx of wealthy and\/or experienced settlers with past links to the UK or East India Company military forces (etc) typically given generous free land grants at that point. Some other such settlers to the district included retired army officers such as Major MacLeod, Captain MacDonald, Captain Crear and Lt. Rose.<\/p>\n

This is background to help explain why the Evandale districts in particular (as well as other adjacent Norfolk Plains areas such as Longford) tended to attract an ostensibly \u2018better quality\u2019 (i.e. often more industrious and educated as well \u2018influential\u2019) settler to the Northern VDL settlements before and after the 1820s (e.g. the Ralstons and Camerons as well as MacLeods). Not only this, but many of these settlers quickly became influential in the early Australian Colony more widely. This was especially so relation to setting new standards of quality homestead and cottage construction as well as of \u2018fine wool production\u2019 from the merino flocks that had come from NSW. It was a number of the settlers in the early \u2018Morven and adjoining districts\u2019 who made up the core group of the Port Philip Association famed for \u2018founding\u2019 Melbourne \u2013 John Batman, Anthony Cottrell, John Helder Wedge and John Sinclair in particular.<\/p>\n

After MacArthur sent some of his merino sheep to VDL in 1820, by the 1830s the very key VDL landowners (especially in the Evandale and adjoining districts) who continued to personally benefit from other generous \u2018assistance\u2019 (such as free convict labour) were able to directly benefit financially also from the growing wool exports to the UK. It is known that by 1828 there were around 700,000 sheep in VDL. From that time until the present day, Tasmanian midland wool-growers have been known not just for the quality of their \u2018fine wool\u2019 production \u2013 but their further related breeding innovations which saw VDL an earlier exporter of sheep to the later emerging settlements of Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.<\/p>\n

But for present purposes, perhaps the main reason why the \u2018lost history of Evandale 1821-1848\u2019 was a pivotal time and place in the emerging Colonies (i.e. that has been a \u2018lost history\u2019 forgotten, largely repressed and partially \u2018covered up\u2019 in the history of early Australia) relates to the growing \u2018roaming emancipist\u2019 problem faced by the VDL. This was not just somewhat exemplary and unique at the time because of Governor Arthur\u2019s repressive and counter-productive penal colony policies. It was also exemplary because of the particular restraints of both VDL as an emerging economy and society on one hand, and as a small island on the other. The early Tasmania compared to a \u2018post 1813 NSW\u2019 which did provide for the same kind of work and dispersal opportunities for the convicts after they had served or had been otherwise released from their initial transportation sentences.<\/p>\n

As discussed earlier, the central background to the problem is that VDL emancipists in the late 1820s onwards typically wanted to get as far away from \u2018Arthur\u2019s Hobart\u2019 as possible whilst also seeking out the limited work and living opportunities on the island colony. Few had the means to leave the Colony, even if they could have gotten approval to do so. And those that made it up North as \u2018homeless itinerants\u2019 were generally \u2018discouraged\u2019 from entering the emerging Launceston or any other established town settlements. For instance, they were being pushed out of Norfolk Plains at the time Murray was persuaded to become a police constable of the then Morven district.<\/p>\n

No wonder then, that there was a related \u2018bushranger\u2019 problem particularly bad in these areas at that time. The \u2018roaming emancipist issue\u2019 was the main reason why many influential \u2018Northern\u2019 pastoralist magistrates (especially those owning land at Evandale at that time including Barclay and Cox) were keen for Kennedy Murray to help address \u2018the problem\u2019. The related story of the Kennedy Murray solution to the roaming emancipist problem did not just involve (a) his several decades as \u2018the\u2019 main District Constable of the district from c1831 until mid-1854 and (b) and his related remedy of allowing the roaming emancipists coming into the district at the time to live and settle on his own farmland whilst they looked for and worked in local farming and other jobs (after being turned away from the Norfolk Plains town as well as Launceston).<\/p>\n

It arguably involved something even more exemplary \u2013 an extension of Murray\u2019s inclusive and shared vision of \u2018prosperity\u2019. This can now be recognised in retrospect to have evoked the repressed and lost memory of Macquarie\u2019s related vision of a future Australia built on the hopes and efforts (as well as work) of the early emancipists of Australia as \u2018penal colony\u2019.\u00a0 As mentioned earlier, Russel Ward has influentially written of how what he called the \u2018Australian legend\u2019 (i.e. the \u2018fair, egalitarian and emerging middle class values<\/em>\u2019 as well as ironic ethos of the \u2018archetypal Australian\u2019<\/em>) developed outside \u2018the colonial capitals\u2019<\/em> in the goldfields of Victoria and also NSW from the 1850s onwards. However, the key ingredients of this distinctive ethos had really begun to form, to emerge, and to further develop (across diverse situations and changing times right up until the present day) much earlier in many rural communities in NSW and VDL that also included less wealth incoming settlers as well as emancipists. But this was perhaps nowhere so in more pivotal, foundational and exemplary terms (of early Australia) than in the emerging Evandale town and its extended and adjoining districts.<\/p>\n

There are two relevant points about this that help reinforce our related argument here that Kennedy Murray\u2019s Prosperous <\/em>town (later retrospectively named Evandale in 1848) \u2013 largely consisting of an emancipist village \u2018covered-up\u2019 as well as \u2018obstructed\u2019 by the 1830s \u2018Arthurite\u2019 VDL governments \u2013 can be seen as an at least exemplary (and in some ways pivotal) time and place of \u2018lost history\u2019 from early Australia. One is that on top of the critical factor of the Prosperous\/Evandale solution to the \u2018roaming emancipist\u2019 problem in VDL at the time, the Morven and adjacent districts (of the Launceston \u2018emancipist wall\u2019 on the road up from Hobart) was at this time perhaps the most concentrated location and related community in all of early Australia in terms of both \u2018intense farming\u2019 (including both pastoralism and horticulture\/cropping) as well as related rural communities largely made up of emancipist workers. The second (on top of the first) is that in c1853 Evandale was also an epicentre of the \u2018great departure\u2019 (of mainly emancipist VDL settlers) from the soon-to-be Tasmania to the Victorian goldfields especially.<\/p>\n

It is generally recognised but often forgotten (within related discussions about the end of convict transportation to VDL and the formal name change to \u2018Tasmania\u2019) that around a third of the VDL population \u2018decamped\u2019 from the Colony at this time. The fact that the VDL government had generally \u2018refused\u2019 to recognise, gazette and basically allow the local emancipists to formally settle in the town until that time (although many did so \u2018informally\u2019) also served to \u2018decimate\u2019 the town of Evandale at this time. As discussed in chapter 9, this had particular implications for Kennedy Murray and his family as well as the town and district more generally.<\/p>\n

In sum then, we think that readers of this book should have no problem recognising that Karl Von Stieglitz\u2019\u2019s 1967 book History of Evandale <\/em>(which basically starts from 1848 [or really c1853] and generally ignores or is blind to most of what really happened around that time as well as before) has generally left out the \u2018lost history of Evandale 1821-1848\u2019<\/em>. This is on par also with many early histories of VDL that have similarly been unaware of the town\u2019s early size and pivotal roles in the Northern settlements, or the significance and scale of the Evandale-Launceston Water Scheme in particular. Recovering the similarly lost as well as forgotten story of Kennedy Murray in the founding and early development of the town has also helped us (and the book) generally \u2018recover\u2019 the main outlines and related details of the lost history of the early town and its initial origins. This has been a project which should also be recognised as significant because of how Tasmanian tourism rightfully promotes Evandale as a significant historic town – as well as impressive \u2018Georgian village\u2019 of early Australia<\/p>\n

In other words, the 1830s were in many significant ways a golden age in Tasmania also pivotal, foundational and exemplary in the early emerging \u2018Australia\u2019. This was a \u2018lost\u2019 or rather forgotten time that has never been adequately recognised or (more to the point) appropriately celebrated. Any relevant recognition of the lost early history of Evandale would of course need to effectively recognise also the forgotten story of Kennedy Murray (as well as those of others like his brother-in-law George Collins and his other brother-in-law David Gibson). Murray was not just the town\u2019s main founder but also the main \u2018community-builder\u2019 up until and after the 1850s (especially 1853 \u2013 when so many Evandale residents also departed for the Victorian goldfields). In this way, then, the recovered early \u2018lost history of Evandale\u2019<\/em> (along with the related \u2018forgotten story of Kennedy Murray\u2019<\/em>) together as well as distinctly represent great \u2018untold stories\u2019 of early Australia. Hopefully this book helps to further recover and better remember such stories well beyond the initial \u2018family history\u2019 focus of our related inquiries \u2013 also, then, in terms of their exemplary connections to a pivotal time and place in the emerging Australian history and society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AFTERWORD – The lost history of Evandale 1821-1848: A pivotal time and place of early Tasmania and Australia? [Along with the related \u2018forgotten story of Kennedy Murray\u2019, also worth celebrating like recently recovered memories about KM\u2019s eminent grandson Harry Murray VC)?]\u00a0 \u00a0[Added to the Prosperous book on 19\/2\/2025 – appearing in paperback and hard cover […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29552,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29550\/revisions\/29552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}