{"id":52394,"date":"2023-02-06T10:27:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T01:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/06\/waitangi-day-celebrations-new-zealand-politics-2023-election"},"modified":"2023-02-06T10:27:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T01:27:43","slug":"waitangi-day-celebrations-struggle-to-mute-politics-in-heated-election-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52394","title":{"rendered":"Waitangi Day celebrations struggle to mute politics in heated election year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions of sovereignty, inequality and New Zealand history hang in the background as political speeches foreshadow a future in which relationship with M\u0101ori plays a central role<\/p>\n<p>At the estuary bridge connecting Waitangi\u2019s treaty grounds to its township, children lined up to leap from the fence railings into the sea, competing for the biggest splash. A team of rowers carved their oars into the water, guiding a waka (traditional canoe) out towards the open ocean.<\/p>\n<p>In the wind above them, a thick row of flags rippled: not the Union Jack-embossed symbol of the New Zealand state, but the red and black curl of tino rangatiratanga, representing the Indigenous battle for self-determination and governance.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/06\/waitangi-day-celebrations-new-zealand-politics-2023-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions of sovereignty, inequality and New Zealand history hang in the background as political speeches foreshadow a future in which relationship with M\u0101ori plays a central roleAt the estuary bridge connecting Waitangi\u2019s treaty grounds to its townshi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2163,"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":[41,1054,897,56,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-labour-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\/52394","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\/2163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52395,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52394\/revisions\/52395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}