{"id":27761,"date":"2021-02-04T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/feb\/04\/nanaia-mahuta-new-zealands-maori-foreign-minister-is-the-perfect-diplomat"},"modified":"2021-02-04T04:00:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T19:00:13","slug":"nanaia-mahuta-new-zealands-maori-foreign-minister-is-the-perfect-diplomat-morgan-godfery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27761","title":{"rendered":"Nanaia Mahuta: New Zealand&#8217;s M\u0101ori foreign minister is the perfect diplomat | Morgan Godfery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She is impossible to miss, understands both sides of the M\u0101ori debate and speaks up on foreign policy in a way that works well for Jacinda Ardern <\/p>\n<p>In a room of dignitaries, New Zealand\u2019s foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta is impossible to miss. <\/p>\n<p>She is the first woman to sit in the country\u2019s parliament wearing a <em>moko kauae<\/em>, an ancient M\u0101ori tattoo form. Koru patterns wrap around her chin, framing it in rich black inks, a visual statement that \u201cI am M\u0101ori\u201d. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/feb\/04\/nanaia-mahuta-new-zealands-maori-foreign-minister-is-the-perfect-diplomat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She is impossible to miss, understands both sides of the M\u0101ori debate and speaks up on foreign policy in a way that works well for Jacinda Ardern In a room of dignitaries, New Zealand\u2019s foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta is impossible to miss. She is the f&#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":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","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\/27761","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=27761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27763,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27761\/revisions\/27763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}