{"id":6441,"date":"2023-07-14T11:46:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T23:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6441"},"modified":"2023-07-14T11:46:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T23:46:28","slug":"matariki-2023-hautapu-ceremony-marks-dawning-of-a-new-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6441","title":{"rendered":"Matariki 2023: Hautapu ceremony marks dawning of a new day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people gathered on Mt Ngongotah\u0101 in Rotorua for the second official Matariki public holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The traditional hautapu ceremony was led by a group of tohunga who sent their karakia up to the Matariki star cluster.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, women were part of the hautapu.<\/p>\n<p>The rising of Matariki marks the start of the new year in the M\u0101ori lunar calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Source RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people gathered on Mt Ngongotah\u0101 in Rotorua for the second official Matariki public holiday. The traditional hautapu ceremony was led by a group of tohunga who sent their karakia up to the Matariki star cluster. For the first time, women were part of the hautapu. The rising of Matariki marks the start of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441","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=6441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6442,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions\/6442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}