{"id":43860,"date":"2022-04-25T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/25\/remembering-our-past-warts-and-all-is-not-about-making-new-zealanders-feel-guilty"},"modified":"2022-04-25T05:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T20:00:31","slug":"remembering-our-past-warts-and-all-is-not-about-making-new-zealanders-feel-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43860","title":{"rendered":"Remembering our past, warts and all, is not about making New Zealanders feel guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confronting our history is not about creating discord, but rather about binding us together as a nation <\/p>\n<p>Anzac Day, marking the anniversary of the landing of Australian and New Zealand troops on the Gallipoli peninsula on 25 April 1915, has long been a day for many New Zealanders to reflect on their country\u2019s involvement in wars. But until recently the wars commemorated were exclusively foreign ones, not those fought closer to home, on Aotearoa\u2019s own shores.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years that has begun to change, as many non-M\u0101ori also come to learn about and acknowledge the 19th-century <a href=\"https:\/\/thespinoff.co.nz\/books\/17-05-2019\/the-new-zealand-wars-acknowledging-an-almost-incomprehensible-level-of-loss\">New Zealand wars<\/a> fought between the crown and various M\u0101ori communities between 1843 and 1872 \u2013 defining conflicts for land and sovereignty whose consequences continue to be felt today in multiple ways.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/25\/remembering-our-past-warts-and-all-is-not-about-making-new-zealanders-feel-guilty\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confronting our history is not about creating discord, but rather about binding us together as a nation Anzac Day, marking the anniversary of the landing of Australian and New Zealand troops on the Gallipoli peninsula on 25 April 1915, has long been a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2671,"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":[2136,41,897,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anzac-day","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43860","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\/2671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43861,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43860\/revisions\/43861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}