{"id":454,"date":"2013-11-28T14:19:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T13:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gpeano.org\/massa\/?p=454"},"modified":"2013-11-28T14:19:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T13:19:05","slug":"a-haka-but-not-on-a-rugby-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/a-haka-but-not-on-a-rugby-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"A haka, but not on a rugby pitch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A passionate haka was performed by New Zealand soldiers for three of their comrades killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=10829992\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-455\" alt=\"Schermata 11-2456625 alle 14.22.41\" src=\"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/Schermata-11-2456625-alle-14.22.41-300x168.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/Schermata-11-2456625-alle-14.22.41-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/Schermata-11-2456625-alle-14.22.41.png 618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the AllBlacks rugby team, we are now used to associating traditional Maori haka with rugby, but they are performed for various reasons: for amusement, as a hearty welcome to distinguished guests, or to acknowledge great achievements, occasions or funerals.<\/p>\n<p>What does a haka consist of?<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haka\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia :<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Various actions are employed in the course of a performance, including facial contortions such as showing the whites of the eyes and the poking out of the tongue, and a wide variety of vigorous body actions such as slapping the hands against the body and stamping of the feet. As well as chanted words, a variety of cries and grunts are used. Haka may be understood as a kind of symphony in which the different parts of the body represent many instruments. The hands, arms, legs, feet, voice, eyes, tongue and the body as a whole combine to express courage, annoyance, joy or other feelings relevant to the purpose of the occasion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A passionate haka was performed by New Zealand soldiers for three of their comrades killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. Thanks to the AllBlacks rugby team, we are now used to associating traditional Maori haka with rugby, but they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/a-haka-but-not-on-a-rugby-pitch\/\">Continua a leggere<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20,33,49,73,100,124],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-info-from-the-web","tag-dance","tag-english","tag-haka","tag-new-zealand","tag-rugby","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liceocuneo.it\/massa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}