{"id":4410,"date":"2022-09-30T02:33:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=4410"},"modified":"2022-09-30T02:35:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:35:13","slug":"hard-hard-country-by-slim-dusty-1968-its-the-heat-or-the-cold-to-extreme-in-the-winter-the-icy-winds-chill-you-or-the-cruel-summer-sun-fiercely-beams-for-its-a-hard-hard-country-its-a-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=4410","title":{"rendered":"Hard Hard Country by Slim Dusty 1968. It&#8217;s the heat or the cold to extreme. In the winter the icy winds chill you. Or the cruel summer sun fiercely beams. For it&#8217;s a hard, hard country, it&#8217;s a hard, hard land., And to live in it you&#8217;ve got to be a hard, hard man."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6oWb5pe5blE\" title=\"Hard Hard Country (1999 Remaster)\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"452\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a hard, hard country, it&#8217;s a hard, hard land,<br \/>\nAnd to live in it you&#8217;ve got to be a hard, hard man,<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the vast inland regions of Australia,<br \/>\nWhere nature alone rules the way,<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s the boss of the land and it&#8217;s seasons,<br \/>\nAnd her rules we have learned to obey.<br \/>\nThere are only two seasons way out here,<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the heat or the cold to extreme,<br \/>\nIn the winter the icy winds chill you,<br \/>\nOr the cruel summer sun fiercely beams<br \/>\nFor it&#8217;s a hard, hard country, it&#8217;s a hard, hard land,<br \/>\nAnd to live in it you&#8217;ve got to be a hard, hard man.<br \/>\nWhen it rains there are oceans of water,<br \/>\nSpread for miles where the channel land lies,<br \/>\nThen the drought slowly kills ever onward,<br \/>\nWhere there&#8217;s heat waves and dust and the flies.<br \/>\nThere are men far way out in the stock camps,<br \/>\nOver a hundred miles from town,<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ve seen that great isolation,<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the place where the strong men are found,<br \/>\nFor it&#8217;s a hard, hard country, it&#8217;s a hard, hard land,<br \/>\nAnd to live in it you&#8217;ve got to be a hard, hard man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a hard, hard country, it&#8217;s a hard, hard land, And to live in it you&#8217;ve got to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4413,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions\/4413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}