{"id":69087,"date":"2025-01-24T09:01:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T00:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/24\/popping-a-manu-new-zealands-unique-water-jumping-obsession"},"modified":"2025-01-24T09:01:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T00:01:40","slug":"popping-a-manu-new-zealands-unique-water-jumping-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69087","title":{"rendered":"Popping a manu: New Zealand\u2019s unique water jumping obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Similar to a bomb, the diving style developed by M\u0101ori and Pasifika communities has become a national pastime<\/p>\n<p>Over summer, a strange phenomenon plays out along New Zealand\u2019s waterholes. Bridges, wharfs, cliffs and swimming pools throng with people readying to leap. Jumpers launch into the air, twist themselves into a v-shape \u2013 bums down, limbs akimbo \u2013 until they hit the surface, forcing water upwards in an almighty splash.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger the splash and the more inventive the jump, the louder the cheers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/24\/popping-a-manu-new-zealands-unique-water-jumping-obsession\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Similar to a bomb, the diving style developed by M\u0101ori and Pasifika communities has become a national pastimeOver summer, a strange phenomenon plays out along New Zealand\u2019s waterholes. Bridges, wharfs, cliffs and swimming pools throng with people ready&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4589,"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":[41,56,972,203,3235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-rivers","category-sport","category-water-sports-holidays"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69087","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\/4589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69088,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69087\/revisions\/69088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}