{"id":20388,"date":"2013-05-18T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=20388"},"modified":"2013-05-13T20:21:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T08:21:39","slug":"inside-middle-earth-fantail-piwakawaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/05\/18\/inside-middle-earth-fantail-piwakawaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Middle Earth: Fantail \/ Piwakawaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This little fellow is the &#8220;Middle Earth&#8221;, aka New Zealand, version of the &#8220;fantail&#8221;, also known as piwakawaka (also tiwakawaka, amongst other variations) in Maori.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20389\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/05\/18\/inside-middle-earth-fantail-piwakawaka\/fantail\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20389\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20389\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20389\" title=\"Fantail\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Fantail-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Fantail-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Fantail-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Fantail.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fantail; credit, B Miller<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The fantail was one of the mythological companions of the Maori demi-god, Maui; is often encountered in the bush, but also in domestic gardens, especially before rain; and is believed by some to be a harbinger of death if it flies into the house (this may or may not be connected to its role in the Maui cycle.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little fellow is the &#8220;Middle Earth&#8221;, aka New Zealand, version of the &#8220;fantail&#8221;, also known as piwakawaka (also tiwakawaka, amongst other variations) in Maori. The fantail was one of the mythological companions of the Maori demi-god, Maui; is often encountered in the bush, but also in domestic gardens, especially before rain; and is believed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20388","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=20388"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20399,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20388\/revisions\/20399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}