{"id":7279,"date":"2015-08-06T08:05:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T19:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=7279"},"modified":"2015-08-06T08:05:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T19:05:46","slug":"responses-to-my-letter-to-obama-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=7279","title":{"rendered":"Responses to my LETTER TO OBAMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HoneAvatar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5537\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HoneAvatar.jpg\" alt=\"HoneAvatar\" width=\"84\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Mana leader Hone Harawira<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obama-computer-740x385.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7276\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obama-computer-740x385.jpg\" alt=\"obama-computer-740x385\" width=\"740\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obama-computer-740x385.jpg 740w, https:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obama-computer-740x385-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obama-computer-740x385-570x297.jpg 570w, https:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obama-computer-740x385-701x365.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kia ora koutou,<\/p>\n<p>I got heaps of responses to my LETTER TO OBAMA.<br \/>\n99% supportive, and the others \u2026 well &#8230; you can\u2019t please \u2018em all.<br \/>\nAnyway, I thought I\u2019d reply to some of those \u2018other\u2019 people\u2019s concerns.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>So &#8211; for those people who were upset at my writing style \u2026 Sorry, but I\u2019m just not a boring person.<br \/>\nFor those who were upset about me writing it as leader of MANA \u2026 don\u2019t be upset, become a leader yourself!<br \/>\nFor those who think writing was a waste of time \u2026 the only real waste of time is to do nothing but criticise others for trying.<br \/>\nFor those who think I just wrote it for votes \u2026 I don\u2019t care who you vote for, I only care that MANA is doing something.<br \/>\nFor those asking whether I actually sent it to Obama \u2026 yes I did.<br \/>\nFor those asking whether I\u2019ll get a reply \u2026 wouldn&#8217;t that be a hoot! No answer yet (where\u2019s that postman gone!)<\/p>\n<p>And finally, for the \u201cthousands who liked the letter, and the millions who read it all around the world\u201d \u2026 I hope it made you smile, I hope it made you think and I hope it make you realise that there really is a lot of us out there.<\/p>\n<p>Hone<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/OpenLetterObama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7031\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/OpenLetterObama.jpg\" alt=\"OpenLetterObama\" width=\"680\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/OpenLetterObama.jpg 680w, https:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/OpenLetterObama-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/OpenLetterObama-570x796.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mana leader Hone Harawira Kia ora koutou, I got heaps of responses to my LETTER TO OBAMA. 99% supportive, and the others \u2026 well &#8230; you can\u2019t please \u2018em all. Anyway, I thought I\u2019d reply to some of those \u2018other\u2019 people\u2019s concerns. So &#8211; for those people who were upset at my writing style \u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7280,"href":"https:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7279\/revisions\/7280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}