{"id":22537,"date":"2020-09-08T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T23:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/08\/arderns-promise-to-make-maori-new-year-a-public-holiday-is-long-overdue"},"modified":"2020-09-08T08:56:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T23:56:08","slug":"arderns-promise-to-make-maori-new-year-a-public-holiday-is-well-overdue-leigh-marama-mclachlan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22537","title":{"rendered":"Ardern&#8217;s promise to make M\u0101ori new year a public holiday is well overdue |  Leigh-Marama McLachlan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recognising Matariki signals official recognition and respect for M\u0101ori customs, and a wider buy-in from New Zealanders<\/p>\n<p>When the small Matariki cluster of stars becomes visible over New Zealand\u2019s early Winter morning skies, the country\u2019s indigenous M\u0101ori people mark the beginning of their New Year.<\/p>\n<p>The prospect of making Matariki a public holiday sends a well overdue sign of respect to M\u0101ori traditions and knowledge and paves the way for greater understanding of our nation\u2019s unique, shared identity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/08\/arderns-promise-to-make-maori-new-year-a-public-holiday-is-long-overdue\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognising Matariki signals official recognition and respect for M\u0101ori customs, and a wider buy-in from New ZealandersWhen the small Matariki cluster of stars becomes visible over New Zealand\u2019s early Winter morning skies, the country\u2019s indigenous M\u0101or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1552,"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-22537","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\/22537","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\/1552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22538,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537\/revisions\/22538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}