{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5d72","title":"In Defence of the Bush","publish_year":1892,"publish_source":"The Bulletin","publish_edition":"Vol. 12, No. 649","publish_scan":"https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-489033962/view?partId=nla.obj-489043871#","author":"Banjo Paterson","code":"in-defence-of-the-bush","words":492,"image":"kangaroo.jpg","image_alt":"A kangaroo on a plains. Graphite filter.","genres":["poetry"],"blurb":"Where the sunbaked earth was gasping like a creature in its pain\nYou would find the grasses waving like a field of summer grain,\nAnd the miles of thirsty gutters blocked with sand and choked with mud,\nYou would find them mighty rivers with a turbid, sweeping flood;","description":"A countryman defends the beauty of the country.","publish_year_exact":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"fifteen-minute-stories","title":"15 Minute Stories","collection_type":"static"},{"code":"urban-despair","title":"Urban Despair","collection_type":"theme"}]}