{"id":8914,"date":"2019-09-12T13:28:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T04:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/12\/maori-anger-as-air-new-zealand-seeks-to-trademark-kia-ora-logo"},"modified":"2019-09-12T13:28:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T04:28:06","slug":"mori-anger-as-air-new-zealand-seeks-to-trademark-kia-ora-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8914","title":{"rendered":"M&#257;ori anger as Air New Zealand seeks to trademark &#8216;Kia Ora&#8217; logo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airline accused of lack of respect for indigenous language by seeking to protect image of the greeting, also the name of its in-flight magazine<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s national carrier, Air New Zealand, has offended the country\u2019s M\u0101ori people by attempting to trademark an image of the words \u201ckia ora\u201d; the greeting for hello.<\/p>\n<p>The airline applied in May to trademark the image showing the greeting, which is also the name of its in-flight magazine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/12\/maori-anger-as-air-new-zealand-seeks-to-trademark-kia-ora-logo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airline accused of lack of respect for indigenous language by seeking to protect image of the greeting, also the name of its in-flight magazineNew Zealand\u2019s national carrier, Air New Zealand, has offended the country\u2019s M\u0101ori people by attempting to tra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"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":[665,41,503,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-industry","category-asia-pacific","category-indigenous-peoples","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914","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\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8915,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions\/8915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}