{"id":1445,"date":"2026-09-16T01:02:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2026-09-16T01:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:03:11","slug":"history-illuminated-long-journey-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1445","title":{"rendered":"History Illuminated:  Long Journey Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/library.lakemac.com.au\/files\/content\/public\/v\/2\/events-directory\/eventbrite\/long-journey-home-the-perilous-escapes-of-anzac-pows-in-wartime-italy\/mainimage.jpg?dimension=pageimagefullwidth&amp;w=1140\" width=\"140\" height=\"214\" \/>On Saturday the 31st of October, I&#8217;ll be hosting a session with titled &#8220;Long Journey Home: The perilous escapes of Anzac POWs in wartime Italy&#8221; with historian <a href=\"https:\/\/katrinakittel.com.au\/\">Katrina Kittel<\/a> as part of this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/library.lakemac.com.au\/Whats-On\/Festivals-Exhibitions\/History-Illuminated\/History-Illuminated-Events\">History Illuminated<\/a> festival. \u00a0We&#8217;ll be talking about her new book which traces her father&#8217;s escape from an Italian POW camp following the 1943 armistice. The session is free, but bookings are necessary. \u00a0For more information or to book visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/library.lakemac.com.au\/Whats-On\/Festivals-Exhibitions\/History-Illuminated\/History-Illuminated-Events\/Long-Journey-Home-The-perilous-escapes-of-Anzac-POWs-in-wartime-Italy\">https:\/\/library.lakemac.com.au\/Whats-On\/Festivals-Exhibitions\/History-Illuminated\/History-Illuminated-Events\/Long-Journey-Home-The-perilous-escapes-of-Anzac-POWs-in-wartime-Italy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday the 31st of October, I&#8217;ll be hosting a session with titled &#8220;Long Journey Home: The perilous escapes of Anzac POWs in wartime Italy&#8221; with historian Katrina Kittel as part of this year&#8217;s History Illuminated festival. \u00a0We&#8217;ll be talking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1445\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24,49,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-events","category-festivals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}