{"id":4334,"date":"2015-04-10T07:59:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T18:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2015-04-10T09:14:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T20:14:16","slug":"national-day-to-remember-all-nz-land-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=4334","title":{"rendered":"National day to remember all NZ Land Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\" alt=\"avatr\" width=\"70\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/landwars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4341\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/landwars.jpg\" alt=\"landwars\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/landwars.jpg 960w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/landwars-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/landwars-495x278.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A move to commemorate the New Zealand land wars is being suggested in parliament. The hurdle is finding an appropriate date and what event would the land wars memorial day be based on.<\/p>\n<p>The current day National government is astoundingly ignorant of New Zealand colonial history for example the New Zealand prime minister claiming New Zealand was &#8220;settled peacefully&#8221; by the British being a colonisation apologist was careful not to use the word \u201ccolonisation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister John Key says a national holiday to the commemorate the land wars is unlikely. An estimated 2990 people died during the New Zealand wars and the majority were Maori.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Possible dates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First Taranaki War -17th March<\/p>\n<p>Flagstaff War -11th March<\/p>\n<p>Battle of \u014cr\u0101kau P\u0101\u00a0 -31st March<\/p>\n<p>Battle of Ruapekapeka 27th December<\/p>\n<p>The Wairau Affray- 17th June<\/p>\n<p>Invasion of the Waikato &#8211; 17th July<\/p>\n<p>Suppression of rebellion Act -21st Nov<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand settlements Act\u00a0 -3rd Dec<\/p>\n<p>ANZAC Day -25th April<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder A move to commemorate the New Zealand land wars is being suggested in parliament. The hurdle is finding an appropriate date and what event would the land wars memorial day be based on. The current day National government is astoundingly ignorant of New Zealand colonial history for example the New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4381,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions\/4381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}