{"id":2547,"date":"2023-12-18T14:13:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T03:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=2547"},"modified":"2024-01-12T10:08:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T23:08:46","slug":"2547","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/events\/2547\/","title":{"rendered":"ANMC proudly presents a special screening of Paradise Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our 75th anniversary year, and to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the sinking of the <em>Vyner Brooke<\/em>, the Australian Nurses Memorial Centre is proud to present a special screening of Bruce Beresford&#8217;s film <strong><em>Paradise Road<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The 1997 film tells the stories of women imprisoned in Japanese internment camps in Sumatra during the Second World War. It is based on Betty Jeffrey&#8217;s 1954 book <strong><em>White Coolies<\/em><\/strong>, which recounts her own experience as an Australian Army Nursing Service nurse held prisoner of war by the Imperial Japanese Army.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets will be <strong>$10 for non-members<\/strong> and <strong>free for members<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>RSVP <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1FOovzk5ve9mPZ5owIlUb8qmzWveR0Kgg1jnlT5n4Ai8\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our 75th anniversary year, and to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the sinking of the Vyner Brooke, the Australian Nurses Memorial Centre is proud to present a special screening of Bruce Beresford&#8217;s film Paradise Road. The 1997 film tells the stories of women imprisoned in Japanese internment camps in Sumatra during the Second World War. It is &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/events\/2547\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":2553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[],"class_list":["post-2547","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/2547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}