{"id":11207,"date":"2024-08-30T05:24:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11207"},"modified":"2024-08-30T05:24:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:24:12","slug":"maori-king-tuheitia-dies-aged-69-just-days-after-koroneihana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11207","title":{"rendered":"M\u0101ori King T\u016bheitia dies aged 69, just days after Koroneihana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kiingi T\u016bheitia has died, aged 69, just days after celebrating\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/te-manu-korihi\/525292\/what-to-expect-from-this-year-s-koroneihana-at-turangawaewae-celebrating-maori-king-s-18th-year\">the 18th anniversary of his coronation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by the office of the Kiingitanga said T\u016bheitia had been in hospital recovering from heart surgery.<\/p>\n<p>He died &#8220;peacefully&#8221; on Thursday afternoon, surrounded by his wife Makau Ariki and their children Whatumoana, Korotangi and Ngawai Hono I Te Po, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The death of Kiingi T\u016bheitia is a moment of great sadness for followers of Te Kiingitanga, Maaoridom and the entire nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>T\u016bheitia was expected to lie in state at Turangawaewae Marae for five days.<\/p>\n<p>He would then be taken to his final resting place on Taupiri Mountain, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiingi T\u016bheitia has died, aged 69, just days after celebrating\u00a0the 18th anniversary of his coronation. A statement issued by the office of the Kiingitanga said T\u016bheitia had been in hospital recovering from heart surgery. He died &#8220;peacefully&#8221; on Thursday afternoon, surrounded by his wife Makau Ariki and their children Whatumoana, Korotangi and Ngawai Hono I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11209,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11207\/revisions\/11209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}