{"id":24842,"date":"2011-03-02T16:45:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T16:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/smh_mourners_cry_as_one_in_healing_ritual_for_a_broken_city_in_christchurch\/"},"modified":"2011-03-02T16:45:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T16:45:42","slug":"smh_mourners_cry_as_one_in_healing_ritual_for_a_broken_city_in_christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24842","title":{"rendered":"(SMH) Mourners cry as one in healing ritual for a broken city in Christchurch, New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maori call it upoko runaka, the farewell for the dead. In Christchurch yesterday, they said, it was also much more: a ritual to heal a broken city, and to reconnect its people with the earth that has so hurt them.<\/p>\n<p>It began with local tribal chief Maurice Gray, in a black suit and holding a tokotoko, a staff carved with his family&#8217;s history that is symbolic of his authority as an elder.<\/p>\n<p>He strode into an intersection lined with dignitaries and emergency workers and brandished the tokotoko at a small pile of broken masonry collected from shattered buildings in the heart of the city.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/mourners-cry-as-one-in-healing-ritual-for-a-broken-city-20110301-1bd9s.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maori call it upoko runaka, the farewell for the dead. In Christchurch yesterday, they said, it was also much more: a ritual to heal a broken city, and to reconnect its people with the earth that has so hurt<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24842\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,50,42,399,74,204,161,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-and-polynesia","category-anglican-provinces","category-australia-nz","category-inter-faith-relations","category-liturgy-music-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}