{"id":180276,"date":"2017-06-06T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/06\/i-hereby-apologise-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-countrymen-for-this-gross-disrespect-and-am-firm-in-my-opinion-that-a-man-of-his-status-should-have-been-saluted-with-a-mass-whakapohane\/"},"modified":"2017-06-06T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T23:04:00","slug":"i-hereby-apologise-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-countrymen-for-this-gross-disrespect-and-am-firm-in-my-opinion-that-a-man-of-his-status-should-have-been-saluted-with-a-mass-whakapohane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/06\/i-hereby-apologise-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-countrymen-for-this-gross-disrespect-and-am-firm-in-my-opinion-that-a-man-of-his-status-should-have-been-saluted-with-a-mass-whakapohane\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hereby Apologise on Behalf of My Fellow Countrymen for This Gross Disrespect and Am Firm in My Opinion That a Man of His Status Should Have Been Saluted with a Mass Whakapohane*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following Trump&#8217;s withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited New Zealand, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/politics\/93382262\/birdflipping-welcome-for-us-secretary-of-state-rex-tillerson-in-new-zealand\">crowds lining the route of his motorcade were rather demonstrative<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The weather was awful and the mood of the locals wasn&#8217;t much better when US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson\u200b arrived in Wellington.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">US media travelling with Tillerson were surprised by the number of people flipping the bird at Tillerson as his motorcade sped through town.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><i>New York Times<\/i> correspondent Gardiner Harris said he had been in a lot of motorcades but even he was taken back by the negative reaction.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been in motorcades for a couple of years now &#8230; I&#8217;ve never seen so many people flip the bird at an American motorcade as I saw today,&#8221; Harris said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am amused.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Not my line.  It was spoken by JH at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a> is native New Zealander, and the term &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/whakapohane\">Whakapohane<\/a>&#8221; refers to the Maori practice of baring ones buttocks as an expression of contempt .<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Trump&#8217;s withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited New Zealand, and the crowds lining the route of his motorcade were rather demonstrative: The weather was awful and the mood of the locals wasn&#8217;t much better when US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson\u200b arrived in Wellington.US media travelling with Tillerson &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[474,588,394],"class_list":["post-180276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-fail","tag-foreign-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}