{"id":33913,"date":"2021-07-10T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/09\/they-help-us-stay-connected-how-maori-games-enthusiasts-are-reviving-tradition"},"modified":"2021-07-10T05:00:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T20:00:05","slug":"they-help-us-stay-connected-how-maori-games-enthusiasts-are-reviving-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33913","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They help us stay connected\u2019: how M\u0101ori games enthusiasts are reviving tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0101ori games were often designed to teach new skills and advocates say they also offer a haven from more serious concerns<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people gathered recently at Umupuia Marae in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/newzealand\">New Zealand<\/a> town of Maraetai to celebrate the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/speak.maori.nz\/pages\/kaupapa-game\">Kaupapa<\/a> \u2013 a word-description board game for learners and speakers of te reo M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest addition to an ever-increasing range of taonga t\u0101karo, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/m-ori\">M\u0101ori<\/a> games. Whether you play in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/m-ori\">M\u0101ori<\/a> or English, it involves each player taking turns to describe actions, objects, places, natural phenomena, or names, while their teammates try to correctly guess the words.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/09\/they-help-us-stay-connected-how-maori-games-enthusiasts-are-reviving-tradition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0101ori games were often designed to teach new skills and advocates say they also offer a haven from more serious concernsHundreds of people gathered recently at Umupuia Marae in the New Zealand town of Maraetai to celebrate the launch of Kaupapa \u2013 a wor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2249,"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-33913","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\/33913","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\/2249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33914,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33913\/revisions\/33914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}