{"id":13185,"date":"2020-01-23T13:28:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T04:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/jan\/23\/the-haka-isnt-yours-stop-performing-it"},"modified":"2020-01-23T13:28:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T04:28:17","slug":"the-haka-isnt-yours-stop-performing-it-morgan-godfery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13185","title":{"rendered":"The haka isn\u2019t yours \u2013 stop performing it | Morgan Godfery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever more non-M\u0101ori are doing the haka \u2013 but shouldn\u2019t be unless its integrity is preserved<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if any of the French lawyers protesting their government\u2019s pension reform <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BFMTV\/status\/1220069929505955841?s=20\">with a haka<\/a>, the M\u0101ori dance form, have ever set foot in New Zealand?<\/p>\n<p>For a good number of white people, including white New Zealanders, haka is apparently irresistible. \u201cKa Mate\u201d, the Ng\u0101ti Toa haka the All Blacks perform pre-match, delights global audiences every year. Contemporary teams take it dead seriously, but in the late-19th and early-20th century the mostly white team would turn to the British crowds, slapping their thighs and hanging their tongues out for \u201centertainment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/jan\/23\/the-haka-isnt-yours-stop-performing-it\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever more non-M\u0101ori are doing the haka \u2013 but shouldn\u2019t be unless its integrity is preservedI wonder if any of the French lawyers protesting their government\u2019s pension reform with a haka, the M\u0101ori dance form, have ever set foot in New Zealand?For a goo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185","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\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13186,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185\/revisions\/13186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}