{"id":13576,"date":"2020-02-02T22:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/feb\/03\/we-must-dismantle-our-colonial-system-and-rebuild-it-with-maori-at-the-heart"},"modified":"2020-02-02T22:00:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T13:00:43","slug":"we-must-dismantle-our-colonial-system-and-rebuild-it-with-maori-at-the-heart-tina-ngata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13576","title":{"rendered":"We must dismantle our colonial system and rebuild it with M\u0101ori at the heart | Tina Ngata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waitangi 2020 is the year for us to prepare for a national discussion on power in Aotearoa, and rights for M\u0101ori on M\u0101ori land<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>This week, to mark Waitangi Day, the Guardian is publishing five pieces of commentary from <\/em>M\u0101ori<em> writers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For many in Aotearoa, Waitangi Day is still a warm mid-summer holiday. A day to relax with friends, or perhaps to celebrate our nationhood.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/feb\/03\/we-must-dismantle-our-colonial-system-and-rebuild-it-with-maori-at-the-heart\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waitangi 2020 is the year for us to prepare for a national discussion on power in Aotearoa, and rights for M\u0101ori on M\u0101ori landThis week, to mark Waitangi Day, the Guardian is publishing five pieces of commentary from M\u0101ori writers.For many in Aotearoa,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"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-13576","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\/13576","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\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13577,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576\/revisions\/13577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}