{"id":43864,"date":"2022-04-25T10:42:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T01:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/25\/maori-battalion-veteran-welcomes-new-zealand-effort-to-issue-unclaimed-war-medals"},"modified":"2022-04-25T10:42:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T01:42:34","slug":"about-time-maori-battalion-veteran-welcomes-new-zealand-effort-to-issue-unclaimed-war-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43864","title":{"rendered":"\u2018About time\u2019: M\u0101ori Battalion veteran welcomes New Zealand effort to issue unclaimed war medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence force works to match medals with families of up to 500 men who served in decorated unit during second world war<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand is working to get medals to the rightful homes of up to 500 men from the country\u2019s M\u0101ori Battalion, who were not properly recognised for their service.<\/p>\n<p>The M\u0101ori Battalion, also known as the \u201c28th\u201d, was one of New Zealand\u2019s most-decorated units during the second world war, fighting in Italy, Egypt, Crete and north Africa, but many of the men who served never received their medals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/25\/maori-battalion-veteran-welcomes-new-zealand-effort-to-issue-unclaimed-war-medals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence force works to match medals with families of up to 500 men who served in decorated unit during second world warNew Zealand is working to get medals to the rightful homes of up to 500 men from the country\u2019s M\u0101ori Battalion, who were not properly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3034,"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":[2136,41,897,56,220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anzac-day","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-second-world-war"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43864","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\/3034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43865,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43864\/revisions\/43865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}