{"id":24678,"date":"2020-11-12T09:54:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T00:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/12\/stan-walkers-impossible-story-from-horrifying-childhood-to-fame-and-forgiveness"},"modified":"2020-11-12T09:54:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T00:54:12","slug":"stan-walkers-impossible-story-from-horrifying-childhood-to-fame-and-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24678","title":{"rendered":"Stan Walker&#8217;s &#8216;impossible&#8217; story from horrifying childhood to fame and forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0101ori singer and actor tells all in his book about his rise from poverty and abuse to healing and acceptance <\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Warning: this article includes details some readers may find disturbing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is the day of his much-anticipated book release and M\u0101ori superstar Stan Walker is celebrating with a glass of red wine in the garage.<\/p>\n<p>Not the fanfare you might expect for the release of his first book, but Walker says he never throws launch parties for anything. A hark back to his past perhaps \u2013 to a little boy who felt he was never allowed to be excited about his achievements or celebrate anything.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/12\/stan-walkers-impossible-story-from-horrifying-childhood-to-fame-and-forgiveness\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0101ori singer and actor tells all in his book about his rise from poverty and abuse to healing and acceptance \u2022 Warning: this article includes details some readers may find disturbingIt is the day of his much-anticipated book release and M\u0101ori superstar&#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":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24678","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=24678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24679,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24678\/revisions\/24679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}