{"id":47325,"date":"2022-08-11T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T19:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/11\/aotearoa-or-new-zealand-has-the-moment-come-to-change-the-countrys-name"},"modified":"2022-08-11T04:00:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T19:00:21","slug":"aotearoa-or-new-zealand-has-the-moment-come-to-change-the-countrys-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47325","title":{"rendered":"Aotearoa or New Zealand: has the moment come to change the country\u2019s name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not the first push to adopt the te reo M\u0101ori name, but a petition signed by 70,000 people has given it fresh momentum<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s in a name? A lot, when it comes to a nation\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n<p>Recognition is growing within Aotearoa New Zealand over the importance of te reo M\u0101ori (M\u0101ori language), and with it a renewed push to change the country\u2019s official name \u2013 this time backed by a petition with 70,000 signatures.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/11\/aotearoa-or-new-zealand-has-the-moment-come-to-change-the-countrys-name\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not the first push to adopt the te reo M\u0101ori name, but a petition signed by 70,000 people has given it fresh momentumWhat\u2019s in a name? A lot, when it comes to a nation\u2019s identity.Recognition is growing within Aotearoa New Zealand over the importan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,897,56,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47325","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47326,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47325\/revisions\/47326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}