{"id":11130,"date":"2019-11-15T09:21:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T00:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/15\/behrouz-boochani-calls-christchurch-welcome-a-reminder-of-kindness"},"modified":"2019-11-15T09:21:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T00:21:18","slug":"behrouz-boochani-calls-christchurch-welcome-a-reminder-of-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11130","title":{"rendered":"Behrouz Boochani calls Christchurch welcome a \u2018reminder of kindness\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Official reception highlights New Zealand\u2019s differences with Australia over immigration<\/p>\n<p>The city of Christchurch has welcomed Behrouz Boochani with a civic reception and a traditional M\u0101ori <em>mihi whakatau<\/em> \u2013 a formal welcome \u2013 as his presence, and liberty, in New Zealand once again underscores the country\u2019s political differences with Australia over immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Boochani was formally greeted from the plane by the mayor of Christchurch and the city\u2019s M\u0101ori leaders, who told him he was welcomed by the mountains, the rivers, and the people of the city.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/15\/behrouz-boochani-calls-christchurch-welcome-a-reminder-of-kindness\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official reception highlights New Zealand\u2019s differences with Australia over immigrationThe city of Christchurch has welcomed Behrouz Boochani with a civic reception and a traditional M\u0101ori mihi whakatau \u2013 a formal welcome \u2013 as his presence, and liberty&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":695,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[205,41,43,388,214,53,932,56,933,494,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amnesty-international","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-christchurch","category-human-rights","category-manus-island","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-refugees","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/695"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11131,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11130\/revisions\/11131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}