{"id":4717,"date":"2023-05-22T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2023-05-22T05:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T17:15:00","slug":"born-within-minutes-of-each-other-graduating-on-the-same-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4717","title":{"rendered":"Born within minutes of each other, graduating on the same day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Identical triplets graduate with law degrees on the very same day.<\/p>\n<p>Cale, Max and Jackson Tu&#8217;inukuafe, who are of Tongan heritage through their father, all graduated from the Victoria University of Wellington this week.<\/p>\n<p>Triplets are rare and according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine identical triplets only occur once in every 10,000 births.<\/p>\n<p>Middle brother Max says its a special bond that they share.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a closeness in relationship &#8211; its like a higher version of brothers. We&#8217;ve been together since day one so we&#8217;re very close,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rnz-ressh.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/s--hgjQgpAZ--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1684455956\/4L8RIST_Triplets_jpg\" alt=\"Tu'inukuafe triplets with Luamanuvao Dame Winnie Laban\" width=\"1050\" height=\"702\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">The brothers with Luamanuvao Dame Winnie Laban\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0Te Herenga Waka\u2014Victoria University of Wellington<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In Tongan, triplets are known as Mahanga Tolu &#8211; literal translation &#8220;twin three&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Auckland-based Tu&#8217;inukuafe trio all wanted to study law and decided to all move down together to study at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University as it provided something new.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-play-controller c-play-controller--full-width u-blocklink\" data-uuid=\"c3449f8e-92df-42c4-a7fb-94b6865deb67\"><\/div>\n<p>The brother have an inseparable bond of support but they were also competitive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re always constantly grinding to get on top of each other, but at the end of the day, we all end up being pretty even,&#8221; said Max.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah no, we&#8217;re extremely competitive with each other,&#8221; said the youngest of the three, Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have our ups and downs because we clash with each other&#8230;but we&#8217;re still pretty good friends,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identical triplets graduate with law degrees on the very same day. Cale, Max and Jackson Tu&#8217;inukuafe, who are of Tongan heritage through their father, all graduated from the Victoria University of Wellington this week. Triplets are rare and according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine identical triplets only occur once in every 10,000 births. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717","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=4717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4719,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions\/4719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}