{"id":11710,"date":"2019-12-02T14:35:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T05:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/02\/cruise-company-apologises-after-staff-pose-as-maori-for-traditional-welcome"},"modified":"2019-12-02T14:35:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T05:35:10","slug":"cruise-company-apologises-after-staff-pose-as-maori-for-traditional-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11710","title":{"rendered":"Cruise company apologises after staff pose as M\u0101ori for traditional welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incident captured on video shows men, who did not appear to be M\u0101ori, in \u2018grass\u2019 skirts with black markings on their faces<\/p>\n<p>A cruise ship company in New Zealand has apologised after its staff dressed up in wildly inaccurate M\u0101ori costumes and painted their faces to perform a traditional <em>p\u014dwhiri<\/em>, or welcome ceremony, for international guests.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, in the Port of Tauranga on Monday morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=12290113\">was captured on video<\/a> and showed a group of men, who did not appear to be M\u0101ori, dancing in \u201cgrass\u201d skirts with black markings drawn on their faces and bodies. One of the ship\u2019s photographers captured the moment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/02\/cruise-company-apologises-after-staff-pose-as-maori-for-traditional-welcome\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incident captured on video shows men, who did not appear to be M\u0101ori, in \u2018grass\u2019 skirts with black markings on their facesA cruise ship company in New Zealand has apologised after its staff dressed up in wildly inaccurate M\u0101ori costumes and painted the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[41,897,56,362],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-race"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11710","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11713,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11710\/revisions\/11713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}