{"id":31027,"date":"2021-04-17T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/17\/gentle-respectful-humble-how-non-maori-can-help-revitalise-te-reo"},"modified":"2021-04-17T05:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T20:00:16","slug":"gentle-respectful-humble-how-non-maori-can-help-revitalise-te-reo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31027","title":{"rendered":"Gentle, respectful, humble: how non-M\u0101ori can help revitalise te reo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0101ori say European New Zealanders should come \u2018from a place of respect\u2019 towards a language their ancestors suppressed <\/p>\n<p>Rosie Remmerswaal is used to people asking why she decided to learn the M\u0101ori language.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes I say, \u2018K\u0101ore \u014dku toto M\u0101ori, engari ko Aotearoa te whenua i whakatipu mai i a au. I don\u2019t have any M\u0101ori blood, but Aotearoa is the land that raised me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Te reo M\u0101ori \u2013 the M\u0101ori language \u2013 is one of Aotearoa New Zealand\u2019s three official languages, along with English and New Zealand sign language. However, it is estimated that only about 4% of the population can hold a conversation in it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/17\/gentle-respectful-humble-how-non-maori-can-help-revitalise-te-reo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0101ori say European New Zealanders should come \u2018from a place of respect\u2019 towards a language their ancestors suppressed Rosie Remmerswaal is used to people asking why she decided to learn the M\u0101ori language.\u201cSometimes I say, \u2018K\u0101ore \u014dku toto M\u0101ori, engari&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2097,"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-31027","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\/31027","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\/2097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31028,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31027\/revisions\/31028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}