{"id":1160,"date":"2019-02-14T01:13:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T01:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/sea\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2020-10-22T01:14:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T01:14:18","slug":"singapore-bicentennial-an-islands-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/sea\/2019\/02\/14\/singapore-bicentennial-an-islands-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore bicentennial: An Island&#8217;s Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nus.edu.sg\/seanews\/2019\/02\/14\/singapore-bicentennial-an-islands-journey\/sunday-times_27-jan-2019_singapore-bicentennial_john-miksic-zwq5r9\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1124\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1124\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nus.edu.sg\/seanews\/files\/2019\/02\/Sunday-Times_27-Jan-2019_Singapore-Bicentennial_John-Miksic-zwq5r9-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"910\" height=\"716\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSunday, 27 January 2019, Insight, The Sunday Times<br \/>\nby Melody Zaccheus, Heritage and Community\u00a0 Correspondent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WHY 2019 IS HISTORY IN THE MAKING<br \/>\nThe arrival of the British in 1819 set in motion Singapore&#8217;s development into a trading port and modern metropolis. Insight looks at the significance of the bicentennial, and how it marks a chance to more fully appreciate Singapore&#8217;s rich history before then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, 27 January 2019, Insight, The Sunday Times by Melody Zaccheus, Heritage and Community\u00a0 Correspondent WHY 2019 IS HISTORY IN THE MAKING The arrival of the British in 1819 set in motion Singapore&#8217;s development into a trading port and modern metropolis. Insight looks at the significance of the bicentennial, and how it marks a chance &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/sea\/2019\/02\/14\/singapore-bicentennial-an-islands-journey\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Singapore bicentennial: An Island&#8217;s Journey<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[63,79,83],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-archaeology","tag-in-the-news","tag-john-miksic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}