{"id":41467,"date":"2024-11-17T08:56:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T14:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41467"},"modified":"2024-11-17T08:56:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T14:56:29","slug":"heres-a-government-with-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/11\/17\/heres-a-government-with-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s A Government With Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2024\/11\/15\/new-zealand-maori-haka-treaty-waitangi-principles-bill\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3fa663a%2F67377d29037c425c211f3af9%2F59ee10d9ae7e8a504fd8ecd3%2F17%2F58%2F67377d29037c425c211f3af9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From<\/a> <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The protests erupted into Parliament\u2019s debating chamber Thursday when Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, a 22-year-old lawmaker for Te Pati Maori, or the Maori Party, was asked to state how her party was voting on the controversial Treaty Principles Bill, which seeks to reinterpret New Zealand\u2019s foundational agreement between the British Crown and the Maori people.<\/p>\n<p>Maipi-Clarke used the opportunity to perform a haka, or war dance. She tore up a copy of the bill in front of its author, as members of Parliament (MPs) from the Maori, Green and Labour parties, and people in the public gallery, joined in the haka.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WaPo: The protests erupted into Parliament\u2019s debating chamber Thursday when Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, a 22-year-old lawmaker for Te Pati Maori, or the Maori Party, was asked to state how her party was voting on the controversial Treaty Principles Bill, which seeks to reinterpret New Zealand\u2019s foundational agreement between the British \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/11\/17\/heres-a-government-with-spirit\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41468,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41467\/revisions\/41468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}