{"id":1013,"date":"2006-03-18T08:59:40","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T12:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2006-03-18T09:04:02","modified_gmt":"2006-03-18T13:04:02","slug":"i-just-ate-your-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1013","title":{"rendered":"I just ate your culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">F<\/span>or some <a id=\"p1012\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1012\" title=\"Swimmers do the dance\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Maori%20Haka.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Swimmers do the dance\" \/><\/a>kind of reason, I find this image of New Zeelanders celebrating the win of Moss Burmeister (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theadvertiser.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,5936,18490851%255E23218,00.html\">news<\/a>),while performing a Maori dance, highly comical. Maybe it illustrates that our great western &#8216;civilized&#8217; culture is just a mash-up of cultures that were conquered the last couple of centuries. Or more specific, the question is, <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-8313747460191556109&#038;q=haka\">particularly when seeing the New Zeeland rugby teams perform the Maori Haka<\/a> (Google video), which culture conquered which one?\n<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haka\">Wikipedia&#8217;s &#8216;Haka&#8217; entry<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allblacks.com\/index.cfm?layout=haka\">All Blacks website<\/a> discussing the Haka.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some kind of reason, I find this image of New Zeelanders celebrating the win of Moss Burmeister (news),while performing a Maori dance, highly comical. Maybe it illustrates that our great western &#8216;civilized&#8217; culture is just a mash-up of cultures &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1013\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}