{"id":29654,"date":"2025-05-25T10:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T10:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/moment-australian-politician-signs-off-career-with-a-shoey\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T10:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T10:13:20","slug":"moment-australian-politician-signs-off-career-with-a-shoey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/moment-australian-politician-signs-off-career-with-a-shoey\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment Australian politician signs off career with a &#8216;shoey&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">An outgoing state MP caused a scene in Western Australia&#8217;s parliament after he ended his valedictory speech with a shoey &#8211; the act of having a celebratory drink, typically alcohol, out of a shoe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Kyle McGinn ended his farewell address by cracking open a beer and drinking it from his removed shoe, which he says he became known for doing by his constituents. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">McGinn told local media he did it to show there were normal people in parliament and to celebrate in his own way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c4grdy4znr0o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An outgoing state MP caused a scene in Western Australia&#8217;s parliament after he ended his valedictory speech with a shoey &#8211; the act of having a celebratory drink, typically alcohol, out of a shoe. Kyle McGinn ended his farewell address by cracking open a beer and drinking it from his removed shoe, which he says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[594,4699,2388,6086,10192,378],"class_list":["post-29654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-australian","tag-career","tag-moment","tag-politician","tag-shoey","tag-signs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29656,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29654\/revisions\/29656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}