{"id":4442,"date":"2026-02-12T09:15:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/?p=4442"},"modified":"2026-02-12T09:15:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:15:42","slug":"the-blue-mountains-a-city-always-on-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/the-blue-mountains-a-city-always-on-the-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Mountains: a city always on the edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Institute of Emergency Services has published a three page article I wrote about the Blue Mountains Community, which is always on the edge not just because it is perched on cliff tops but also because the sound of helicopters makes people nervous.\u00a0 You can read the article on pages 16-18 of the Summer 2025-26 edition or here: <a href=\"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Blue-Mountains-a-city-always-on-the-edge.pdf\">https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Blue-Mountains-a-city-always-on-the-edge.pdf\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AIES membership costs $80 p.a. The AIES web page is here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aies.net.au\">http:\/\/www.aies.net.au\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The whole journal can be downloaded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aies.net.au\/ner\">here<\/a>, although at the moment it is only available to members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Blue-Mountains-a-city-always-on-the-edge.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4443,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions\/4443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}