{"id":38208,"date":"2021-10-21T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T03:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/21\/dame-cindy-kiro-becomes-new-zealands-first-female-maori-governor-general"},"modified":"2021-10-21T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T03:00:32","slug":"dame-cindy-kiro-becomes-new-zealands-first-female-maori-governor-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38208","title":{"rendered":"Dame Cindy Kiro becomes New Zealand\u2019s first female M\u0101ori governor-general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dame Cindy, the first in her family to graduate from university, rose to become a pro-vice chancellor at the University of Auckland<\/p>\n<p>The first M\u0101ori woman to be named governor-general of New Zealand, Dame Cindy Kiro, has been sworn in at an intimate ceremony in parliament, where she said she hopes to use the role to reach out to marginalised communities.<\/p>\n<p>Dame Cindy, who is of Ng\u0101puhi, Ng\u0101ti Hine, Ng\u0101ti Kahu and British descent, became the country\u2019s 22nd governor-general \u2013 Queen Elizabeth\u2019s representative in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/21\/dame-cindy-kiro-becomes-new-zealands-first-female-maori-governor-general\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dame Cindy, the first in her family to graduate from university, rose to become a pro-vice chancellor at the University of AucklandThe first M\u0101ori woman to be named governor-general of New Zealand, Dame Cindy Kiro, has been sworn in at an intimate cere&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,897,56,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-uk-news","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\/38208","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38209,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38208\/revisions\/38209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}