{"id":1009,"date":"2013-06-03T16:27:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T06:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibys.org\/shed\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2016-03-10T06:37:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T06:37:40","slug":"the-shearing-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/2013\/06\/03\/the-shearing-days\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shearing Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hh-at-shearing-shed-detail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"501\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1012\" title=\"hh at shearing shed detail\" src=\"http:\/\/www1.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hh-at-shearing-shed-detail.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hh-at-shearing-shed-detail.jpg 501w, https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hh-at-shearing-shed-detail-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recent research work by IBYS associates has thrown more light on Australian Inventor Henry Hoke&#8217;s &#8220;missing years&#8221; which currently seem to be fairly elastic &#8211; they could have taken up most of his life.\u00a0 Photos taken in a remote shearing shed prove definitively that Henry really did work in the shearing industry- these stencilled letters which spell out his name on the shearing shed wall are part of a longstanding tradition when a shearing season comes to an end. The exact year of the stencilling is unclear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Henry Hoke was thought to have invented the now-common shearer&#8217;s pizzle guard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Any stories or anecdotes about Henry\u2019s experiences as a shearer are always welcome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1267 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www1.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/HH-shears-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"HH-shears\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/HH-shears-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/HH-shears-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/HH-shears-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/HH-shears.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent research work by IBYS associates has thrown more light on Australian Inventor Henry Hoke&#8217;s &#8220;missing years&#8221; which currently seem to be fairly elastic &#8211; they could have taken up most of his life.\u00a0 Photos taken in a remote shearing shed prove definitively that Henry really did work in the shearing industry- these stencilled letters &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/2013\/06\/03\/the-shearing-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Shearing Days&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibys.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}