{"id":27910,"date":"2021-02-06T11:01:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T02:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/06\/new-zealand-celebrates-waitangi-day-with-dawn-service-bacon-butties"},"modified":"2021-02-06T11:01:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T02:01:35","slug":"new-zealand-celebrates-waitangi-day-with-dawn-service-bacon-butties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27910","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand celebrates Waitangi Day with dawn service, bacon butties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Kiwis turn out early to mark 181st anniversary of founding document<\/p>\n<p>Leaders from all walks of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/newzealand\">New Zealand<\/a> life have commemorated the country\u2019s national day with a dawn service at Waitangi in the culmination of almost a week of celebrations, speeches and ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, was joined by other political figures, religious leaders, military and police chiefs and countless others for the sombre, soulful occasion, which marks the country\u2019s founding.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/06\/new-zealand-celebrates-waitangi-day-with-dawn-service-bacon-butties\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Kiwis turn out early to mark 181st anniversary of founding documentLeaders from all walks of New Zealand life have commemorated the country\u2019s national day with a dawn service at Waitangi in the culmination of almost a week of celebrations,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","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\/27910","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27912,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27910\/revisions\/27912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}