{"id":46880,"date":"2022-07-30T04:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T19:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/30\/the-paddock-that-became-a-grave-for-the-people-new-zealand-branded-defective-and-chose-to-forget"},"modified":"2022-07-30T04:00:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T19:00:04","slug":"the-paddock-that-became-a-grave-for-the-people-new-zealand-branded-defective-and-chose-to-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46880","title":{"rendered":"The paddock that became a grave for the people New Zealand branded \u2018defective\u2019 \u2013 and chose to forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 500 patients consigned to the Tokanui psychiatric hospital died there, their only legacy a memorial wall in a field<\/p>\n<p>It was, remembers Caroline Arrell, just another paddock. Grazed by sheep under the wide Waikato sky, it gave no hint of its past \u2013 except perhaps that her labrador, Lucy, had an odd aversion to it. The dog would veer away from it, skirting the fence line.<\/p>\n<p>But out riding her horse, Alice, on a quiet Sunday in early 1991, Arrell was about to discover a grave on the 200-hectare farm she called home. Beneath the feet of the sheep, under the grass and soil, nearly 500 people lay buried.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/30\/the-paddock-that-became-a-grave-for-the-people-new-zealand-branded-defective-and-chose-to-forget\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 500 patients consigned to the Tokanui psychiatric hospital died there, their only legacy a memorial wall in a fieldIt was, remembers Caroline Arrell, just another paddock. Grazed by sheep under the wide Waikato sky, it gave no hint of its past \u2013&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3206,"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":[41,744,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-mental-health","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\/46880","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\/3206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46881,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46880\/revisions\/46881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}