{"id":117724,"date":"2019-11-06T01:38:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T00:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/11\/06\/archie-roach-you-can-reach-the-darkest-point-in-our-life-and-come-back-and-come-good\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T01:38:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T00:38:14","slug":"archie-roach-you-can-reach-the-darkest-point-in-our-life-and-come-back-and-come-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=117724","title":{"rendered":"Archie Roach: &#039;You can reach the darkest point in our life and come back, and come good&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Indigenous suicide rates at an epidemic level, the songwriter regrets not talking sooner about his own battle with mental health. Telling his story through music, and memoir, has helped him heal\u2022 Read more about Guardian Australia\u2019s Unmissable books of 2019For the Gunditjmara people of south-west Victoria, the kneeangar \u2013 what white Australians call the wedge-tailed eagle \u2013 is the creator of the landscape. For the Bundjalung of north-east New South Wales, it is the gunggayay, or red-bellied black snake.On the spine of Archie Roach\u2019s memoir, Tell Me Why, the gunggayay encircles the kneeangar, a logo that encapsulates the Indigenous songwriter\u2019s heritage: his Bundjalung father Archie Senior, and his Gunditjmara mother Nellie Austin. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/nov\/06\/archie-roach-you-can-reach-the-darkest-point-in-our-life-and-come-back-and-come-good\" target=\"_blank\">Archie Roach: &#039;You can reach the darkest point in our life and come back, and come good&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Indigenous suicide rates at an epidemic level, the songwriter regrets not talking sooner about his own battle with mental health. Telling his story through music, and memoir, has helped him heal\u2022 Read more about Guardian Australia\u2019s Unmissable books of 2019For the Gunditjmara people of south-west Victoria, the kneeangar \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}