{"id":125595,"date":"2019-12-31T01:31:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T00:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/31\/aotearoa-is-at-last-finding-its-voice-helping-us-heal-after-a-year-of-tragedy\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T01:31:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T00:31:17","slug":"aotearoa-is-at-last-finding-its-voice-helping-us-heal-after-a-year-of-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=125595","title":{"rendered":"Aotearoa is at last finding its voice, helping us heal after a year of tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through Christchurch, Whakaari, the murder of Grace Millane, it is the M\u0101ori rituals, and each other, that sustain usThe phrase \u201ca year that was bookended by tragedy\u201d is too neat, somehow.Tragedy moves through time differently from other events. Time seems to stop then start again fitfully. As it gathers momentum, its passing feels cruel, as if demanding that we gain perspective and return to our ordinary lives. Those early and late events of 2019 in Aotearoa \u2013 the massacre in Christchurch in March, and the eruption of Whakaari in November \u2013 did strange things to the future, too. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/31\/aotearoa-is-at-last-finding-its-voice-helping-us-heal-after-a-year-of-tragedy\" target=\"_blank\">Aotearoa is at last finding its voice, helping us heal after a year of tragedy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through Christchurch, Whakaari, the murder of Grace Millane, it is the M\u0101ori rituals, and each other, that sustain usThe phrase \u201ca year that was bookended by tragedy\u201d is too neat, somehow.Tragedy moves through time differently from other events. Time seems to stop then start again fitfully. As it gathers momentum, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}