{"id":27805,"date":"2021-02-04T12:44:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T03:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/04\/new-zealand-matariki-creates-public-holiday-to-celebrate-maori-new-year-waitangi"},"modified":"2021-02-04T12:44:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T03:44:52","slug":"new-zealand-creates-public-holiday-to-celebrate-maori-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27805","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand creates public holiday to celebrate M\u0101ori new year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern had pledged to make Matariki a holiday in the 2020 election; it will be celebrated for the first time on 24 June 2022<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has fulfilled her election promise of making the M\u0101ori new year celebration Matariki a public holiday \u2013 the first official day to celebrate M\u0101ori in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Ardern confirmed the holiday next year during her speech at the upper marae at Waitangi on Thursday. \u201cMatariki is a uniquely M\u0101ori and therefore New Zealand-based celebration \u2026 and in our view it\u2019s been a long time coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/04\/new-zealand-matariki-creates-public-holiday-to-celebrate-maori-new-year-waitangi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern had pledged to make Matariki a holiday in the 2020 election; it will be celebrated for the first time on 24 June 2022New Zealand\u2019s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has fulfilled her election promise of making the M\u0101ori new year celebratio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1833,"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":[41,503,897,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indigenous-peoples","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\/27805","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\/1833"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27809,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27805\/revisions\/27809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}