{"id":35224,"date":"2021-08-15T08:27:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T23:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/rugby-racism-and-the-battle-for-the-soul-of-aotearoa-new-zealand"},"modified":"2021-08-15T08:27:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T23:27:15","slug":"rugby-racism-and-the-battle-for-the-soul-of-aotearoa-new-zealand-john-minto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35224","title":{"rendered":"Rugby, racism and the battle for the soul of Aotearoa New Zealand | John Minto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Springboks\u2019 tour and the protests that ensued 40 years ago helped set the fight for M\u0101ori rights on a stronger path<\/p>\n<p>The 1981 Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand will always have a special place in any narrative about the international fight against apartheid in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The protests against the Springboks reverberated around the world \u2013 delivering a savage psychological blow to South Africa\u2019s white regime while giving a resounding boost to the oppressed majority.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/rugby-racism-and-the-battle-for-the-soul-of-aotearoa-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Springboks\u2019 tour and the protests that ensued 40 years ago helped set the fight for M\u0101ori rights on a stronger pathThe 1981 Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand will always have a special place in any narrative about the international fight against &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2387,"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":[41,1203,56,80,223,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-inequality","category-new-zealand","category-protest","category-rugby-union","category-sport"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35224","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\/2387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35225,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35224\/revisions\/35225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}