{"id":18706,"date":"2013-02-06T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T17:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=18706"},"modified":"2013-02-04T21:03:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T08:03:47","slug":"february-6-waitangi-day-new-zealand-is-173-years-old-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/02\/06\/february-6-waitangi-day-new-zealand-is-173-years-old-today\/","title":{"rendered":"February 6: Waitangi Day &#8212; New Zealand is 173 Years Old Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11575\" style=\"width: 138px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/waitangi-day-he-iwi-kotahi-tatou\/treaty-house-waitangi\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11575\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11575\" class=\" wp-image-11575 \" title=\"Treaty House Waitangi\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Treaty-House-Waitangi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Treaty-House-Waitangi.jpg 160w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Treaty-House-Waitangi-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Treaty House, at Waitangi<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today is Waitangi Day, New Zealand&#8217;s national holiday, when we commemorate signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between the Maori Chiefs of New Zealand and the British Crown.<\/p>\n<p>I posted more about Waitangi Day in a series of posts last year, as follows:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/waitangi-day-he-iwi-kotahi-tatou\/\">Waitangi Day: \u201cHe Iwi Kotahi Tatou\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/02\/07\/tuesday-poem-tauparapara-te-tangi-a-te-matui-traditional\/\">Tuesday Poem: Tauparapara\u2014\u201dTe Tangi A Te Matui\u201d; Traditional <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/maori-mythology-in-new-zealand-sff-a-few-favourite-tales\/\">Maori Mythology in New Zealand SFF: A Few Favourite Tales<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I don&#8217;t propose to repeat the material again today, but I hope you will consider clicking on the links to have a look if you did not read them last year &#8212; especially, perhaps, when I had that the poem and the Maori Mythology posts were amongst my 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/category\/most-read-posts-of-2012\/\">Most-Read Posts of 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for what I&#8217;m doing today &#8212; celebrating in spirit, for sure, but also writing away like a trooper and a Trojan on <strong><em>Daughter of Blood<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Three.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Waitangi Day, New Zealand&#8217;s national holiday, when we commemorate signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between the Maori Chiefs of New Zealand and the British Crown. I posted more about Waitangi Day in a series of posts last year, as follows: Waitangi Day: \u201cHe Iwi Kotahi Tatou\u201d Tuesday Poem: Tauparapara\u2014\u201dTe Tangi A Te [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18706"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18710,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18706\/revisions\/18710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}