{"id":66484,"date":"2024-08-30T07:57:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T22:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/30\/maori-king-tuheitia-paki-dies-aged-69-death-new-zealand"},"modified":"2024-08-30T07:57:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T22:57:45","slug":"new-zealands-maori-king-tuheitia-dies-aged-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66484","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s M\u0101ori King Tuheitia dies aged 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018A moment of great sadness for the nation\u2019 as M\u0101ori king, considered the paramount chief of several tribes, or iwi, dies<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s M\u0101ori King Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII died peacefully on Friday morning, aged 69, according to a statement released by his representatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe death of Kiingi Tuheitia is a moment of great sadness for followers of Te Kiingitanga, M\u0101oridom and the entire nation,\u201d spokesperson Rahui Papa said on social media. He added the King had been in hospital recovering from heart surgery just days after celebrating the 18th anniversary of his coronation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/30\/maori-king-tuheitia-paki-dies-aged-69-death-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018A moment of great sadness for the nation\u2019 as M\u0101ori king, considered the paramount chief of several tribes, or iwi, diesNew Zealand\u2019s M\u0101ori King Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII died peacefully on Friday morning, aged 69, according to a statement re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66484","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66489,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66484\/revisions\/66489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}