{"id":41409,"date":"2022-02-06T10:37:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T01:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/06\/like-a-forest-without-birdsong-waitangi-day-becomes-more-reflective-as-covid-takes-toll"},"modified":"2022-02-06T10:37:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T01:37:23","slug":"like-a-forest-without-birdsong-waitangi-day-becomes-more-reflective-as-covid-takes-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41409","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Like a forest without birdsong\u2019: Waitangi Day becomes more reflective as Covid takes toll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As gatherings and speeches are moved online, the chairman of the Waitangi National Trust Board sees a chance for further thought and change<\/p>\n<p>On the 182nd anniversary of the signing of Aotearoa New Zealand\u2019s founding document, the Waitangi Treaty grounds \u2013 usually thronging with tens of thousands of people \u2013 were quiet and cloaked in a gloss of rain, a sign, or tohu, to some that it is a Waitangi Day like no other.<\/p>\n<p>National events were cancelled this year, and ceremonies, speeches and reflections moved online, as the country teeters on the edge of a widespread Omicron outbreak.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/06\/like-a-forest-without-birdsong-waitangi-day-becomes-more-reflective-as-covid-takes-toll\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As gatherings and speeches are moved online, the chairman of the Waitangi National Trust Board sees a chance for further thought and changeOn the 182nd anniversary of the signing of Aotearoa New Zealand\u2019s founding document, the Waitangi Treaty grounds &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2845,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41409","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\/2845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41410,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41409\/revisions\/41410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}