{"id":42208,"date":"2022-03-06T04:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/mar\/06\/sydney-is-no-place-to-build-a-maori-meeting-house-it-is-disrespectful-to-aboriginal-people"},"modified":"2022-03-06T04:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T19:00:32","slug":"sydney-is-no-place-to-build-a-maori-meeting-house-it-is-disrespectful-to-aboriginal-people-morgan-godfery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42208","title":{"rendered":"Sydney is no place to build a M\u0101ori meeting house \u2013 it is disrespectful to Aboriginal people  | Morgan Godfery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marae embody deep connections to the land and are a statement of indigeneity \u2013 but M\u0101ori aren\u2019t indigenous in Australia<\/p>\n<p>When most New Zealanders hear the term \u201cmarae\u201d they think of the typical M\u0101ori meeting house.<\/p>\n<p>The angular facade, decorated in red and white carvings, and the open space for the \u201cencounter\u201d where guests arrive in the warmth of welcome, in the grief of a tangi (funeral), or in the uncertainty of a disagreement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/mar\/06\/sydney-is-no-place-to-build-a-maori-meeting-house-it-is-disrespectful-to-aboriginal-people\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marae embody deep connections to the land and are a statement of indigeneity \u2013 but M\u0101ori aren\u2019t indigenous in AustraliaWhen most New Zealanders hear the term \u201cmarae\u201d they think of the typical M\u0101ori meeting house.The angular facade, decorated in red and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"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":[41,43,503,897,56,355,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-indigenous-peoples","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-sydney","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\/42208","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\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42209,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42208\/revisions\/42209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}