{"id":697,"date":"2009-09-03T12:20:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T02:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/?p=697"},"modified":"2023-01-21T15:12:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T04:12:06","slug":"steve-hooker-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/steve-hooker-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Hooker (Head)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/p079.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-594 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/p079-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"p079\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/p079-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/p079-466x350.jpg 466w, https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/p079.jpg 919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>76cm x 61cm (30&#8243; x 24&#8243;)<\/p>\n<p>Oil on Canvas Board. Phillip Carrero<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carreroart.com.au\/shop\/paintings\/sopac-exhibition.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Exclusive Prints on Canvas For Sale here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Steve Hooker created history at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, becoming the first Australian to win a gold medal in the pole vault and the first Australian field event athlete to win Olympic gold in 60 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In dramatic circumstances, Hooker twice cleared clutch jumps on his third attempt in the final, before clinching the gold medal with yet another third attempt clearance at 5.90m.<\/p>\n<p>With the gold medal secured he went on to break the Olympic record, with another third and final attempt heart-stopper at 5.96m.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In February 2009 Steve recorded a new personal best height of 6.06m at the Boston Indoor Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>76cm x 61cm (30&#8243; x 24&#8243;) Oil on Canvas Board. Phillip Carrero Exclusive Prints on Canvas For Sale here! Steve Hooker created history at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, becoming the first Australian to win a gold medal in the pole vault and the first Australian field event athlete to win Olympic gold in 60&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics-portraits","category-paintings-for-poles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}