{"id":49527,"date":"2022-10-22T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/22\/where-the-heart-lives-the-enduring-homesteads-tying-maori-to-their-heritage"},"modified":"2022-10-22T03:00:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T18:00:46","slug":"where-the-heart-lives-the-enduring-homesteads-tying-maori-to-their-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49527","title":{"rendered":"Where the heart lives: the enduring homesteads tying M\u0101ori to their heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passed through generations of families and scattered across New Zealand, the homes are lasting connections to ancestral land<\/p>\n<p>When the time came for the Makiha family to pull down their house, they decided to bury it. Piece by piece, they dismantled the wooden frame and weatherboards, laying them carefully to rest, like an ancestor, in the Hokianga soil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is only right to bury it,\u201d says Rereata Makiha, who led the family through the ceremony. \u201cBuried within the ground, to sleep. Prayers are recited so that it may lay to rest forever, as if she is a person.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/22\/where-the-heart-lives-the-enduring-homesteads-tying-maori-to-their-heritage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passed through generations of families and scattered across New Zealand, the homes are lasting connections to ancestral landWhen the time came for the Makiha family to pull down their house, they decided to bury it. Piece by piece, they dismantled the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49527","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49528,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49527\/revisions\/49528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}