{"id":37653,"date":"2019-03-27T15:22:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T15:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37653"},"modified":"2019-03-27T15:22:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T15:22:33","slug":"the-haka-what-it-means-and-how-its-performed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37653","title":{"rendered":"The Haka: What it means and how it&#8217;s performed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>It&#8217;s what representing their country is all about &#8212; walking out in New Zealand&#8217;s All Blacks jersey, facing their opposition, and delivering a spine-tingling, hair-raising Haka before the whistle blows for kick-off. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The sights and sounds of the Haka &#8212; feet stomping, fists pumping, vocal chords straining &#8212; are deeply entrenched within New Zealand culture. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;For me, the Haka is a symbol of who we are and where we come from,&#8221; former All Blacks captain Richie McCaw told CNN in 2015.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)It&#8217;s what representing their country is all about &#8212; walking out in New Zealand&#8217;s All Blacks jersey, facing their opposition, and delivering a spine-tingling, hair-raising Haka before the whistle blows for kick-off. The sights and sounds of the Haka &#8212; feet stomping, fists pumping, vocal chords straining &#8212; are deeply entrenched within New Zealand culture.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}