{"id":7774,"date":"2015-08-20T08:38:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T19:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=7774"},"modified":"2015-08-20T08:48:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T19:48:25","slug":"nz-flag-national-cant-manufacture-patriotism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=7774","title":{"rendered":"NZ Flag: National can&#8217;t manufacture patriotism"},"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 Mews editor Joe Trinder<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Feedthekidsflag.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7791\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Feedthekidsflag.png\" alt=\"Feedthekidsflag\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Feedthekidsflag.png 800w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Feedthekidsflag-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Feedthekidsflag-119x89.png 119w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Feedthekidsflag-570x428.png 570w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Feedthekidsflag-701x526.png 701w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The upcoming flag referendum there are many\u00a0arguments for an against. The Returned Services Association believes many of its servicemen served\u00a0under the New Zealand Flag when at Gallipoli they fought\u00a0under the British Flag. The same as Edmund Hilary he placed the Union Jack on top of Mount Everest not the New Zealand Flag.<\/p>\n<p>The other argument is our flag is easily mistaken for Australia&#8217;s Flag and\u00a0we need\u00a0a flag that looks uniquely Kiwi. These arguments are compelling but the Government out of a lack of empathy has not managed to convince all New Zealanders.<\/p>\n<p>The Flag referendum costs $26 Million dollars and the deployment of Troops to Iraq costs $60 million. These costs are categorically optional for a Nation.<\/p>\n<p>When the National government decided to vote down the feed the kids bill out of spite it lost the moral high-ground to change our National identity. Using lame excuses like &#8220;Ultimately its the parents responsibility to feed their Children&#8221; -Paula Bennett<\/p>\n<p>We know it&#8217;s the parents responsibility but children are starving in Schools all over the country. How do helpless children control their parents finances. The next generation of New Zealanders are being neglected for a\u00a0vanity project.<\/p>\n<p>The Flag referendum has the potential to back fire on the Government\u00a0where many\u00a0New Zealanders will opt for\u00a0the Tino rangatiratanga flag as their National flag.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6178\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tino-rangatratanga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6178 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tino-rangatratanga.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tino-rangatratanga.jpg 680w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tino-rangatratanga-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tino-rangatratanga-570x285.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tino rangatiratanga flag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mana Mews editor Joe Trinder The upcoming flag referendum there are many\u00a0arguments for an against. The Returned Services Association believes many of its servicemen served\u00a0under the New Zealand Flag when at Gallipoli they fought\u00a0under the British Flag. The same as Edmund Hilary he placed the Union Jack on top of Mount Everest not the New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7774","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\/7774"}],"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=7774"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7808,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions\/7808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}