{"id":3994,"date":"2006-01-15T14:39:01","date_gmt":"2006-01-15T14:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3994"},"modified":"2006-01-15T14:39:01","modified_gmt":"2006-01-15T14:39:01","slug":"return-of-the-haka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/return-of-the-haka\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Haka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not much into team sports, but if more teams did the haka before each game, I&#8217;d watch every single one.  Would even be tempted to participate.<\/p>\n<p>Below you find New Zealand&#8217;s All Blacks performing the haka before a game:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BB64qQ4cgnQ\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BB64qQ4cgnQ\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The Haka <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/mt-archives\/001453.php\">returns<\/a> to my mind after visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/kapa-o-pango.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Kung Fu Monkey&#8217;s<\/a> site offhand.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\" class=\"external external_icon\">You Tube<\/a>, I can visually share the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzealand.com\/travel\/about-nz\/culture\/haka-feature\/haka.cfm\" class=\"external external_icon\">Haka experience <\/a>on this site.<\/p>\n<p>English translation:<\/p>\n<div class=\"blocked\">Tis death! Tis death!<\/p>\n<p>Tis life! Tis life!<\/p>\n<p>Tis death! Tis death!<\/p>\n<p>Tis life! Tis life!<\/p>\n<p>Behold! There stands the hairy man<\/p>\n<p>Who will cause the sun to shine!<\/p>\n<p>One step upwards&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Another step upwards<\/p>\n<p>The sun shines!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not much into team sports, but if more teams did the haka before each game, I&#8217;d watch every single one. Would even be tempted to participate. Below you find New Zealand&#8217;s All Blacks performing the haka before a game: The Haka returns to my mind after visiting Kung Fu Monkey&#8217;s site offhand. Thanks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7],"tags":[31,4927],"class_list":["post-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport","category-video","tag-culture","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}