{"id":19222,"date":"2020-06-12T09:14:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T00:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/12\/city-of-hamilton-in-new-zealand-to-remove-statue-of-british-naval-captain"},"modified":"2020-06-12T11:09:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T02:09:38","slug":"city-of-hamilton-in-new-zealand-to-remove-statue-of-british-naval-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19222","title":{"rendered":"City of Hamilton in New Zealand removes statue of British naval captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City council says memorial to Captain John Hamilton comes down after M\u0101ori elder calls him a \u2018murderer\u2019 and threatens to remove by force<\/p>\n<p>A statue of a British naval captain has been removed by the city council in Hamilton, New Zealand after a local M\u0101ori elder threatened to take it down by force.<\/p>\n<p>The statue of Captain John Hamilton, after whom the city in the central North Island is named, was gifted to the city by a local company in 2013.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/12\/city-of-hamilton-in-new-zealand-to-remove-statue-of-british-naval-captain\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City council says memorial to Captain John Hamilton comes down after M\u0101ori elder calls him a \u2018murderer\u2019 and threatens to remove by forceA statue of a British naval captain has been removed by the city council in Hamilton, New Zealand after a local M\u0101or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"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":[41,1445,56,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-black-lives-matter-movement","category-new-zealand","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19222","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\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19232,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19222\/revisions\/19232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}