{"id":47980,"date":"2022-08-30T15:30:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T06:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/30\/new-zealand-minister-defies-ardern-in-maori-language-chocolate-bar-row"},"modified":"2022-08-31T12:43:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T03:43:21","slug":"new-zealand-minister-defies-ardern-in-maori-language-chocolate-bar-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47980","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand minister wrapped up in M\u0101ori language chocolate bar row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-racism video by Marama Davidson featured chocolate labelled in te reo M\u0101ori, breaching rules against product promotion<\/p>\n<p>A New Zealand minister has had to revise her anti-racism social media posts featuring a popular brand of chocolate, after the prime minister requested their removal because it breached cabinet rules about product promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Green party MP Marama Davidson posted a video of herself to Instagram on Monday holding five blocks of Whittakers creamy milk chocolate, which have recently been rebranded with the M\u0101ori translation Miraka Kir\u012bmi in honour of the upcoming M\u0101ori language week \u2013 te wiki o te reo M\u0101ori. She also posted photographs on Twitter and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/30\/new-zealand-minister-defies-ardern-in-maori-language-chocolate-bar-row\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-racism video by Marama Davidson featured chocolate labelled in te reo M\u0101ori, breaching rules against product promotionA New Zealand minister has had to revise her anti-racism social media posts featuring a popular brand of chocolate, after the pri&#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":[41,1737,897,56,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-green-party","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\/47980","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=47980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48023,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47980\/revisions\/48023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}