{"id":1970,"date":"2025-10-11T12:43:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T23:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tetaioawatea.org.nz\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:19:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:19:03","slug":"waka-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tetaioawatea.org.nz\/en\/waka-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"Waka Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"

E te iwi moana, we celebrated a very special milestone by blessing our second waka taurua at beautiful Kaiteretere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was an early start at 6am, and we are grateful to everyone who joined us to mark this moment together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have been named, \u201cKaranga Weka\u201d (by Hoturoa Kerr) and \u201cK\u0101kano \u2013 sown from Raiatea\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ng\u0101 mihi nui to all who came to support, to share in the wairua, and to acknowledge the kaupapa of our waka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turou Hawaiki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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E te iwi moana, he mea tino whakamiharo, ko te whakam\u0101nawatanga m\u014d t\u014d m\u0101tou wakataurua tuarua ki runga o Kaiteretere. I timata ake ai i mua i te aranga o Tama-nui-te-r\u0101, \u0101, e koakoa ana te ng\u0101kau i te hunga i tautoko i te kaupapa. Kua tapaina ng\u0101 waka; ko \u201cKaranga Weka (n\u0101 Hoturoa Kerr) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Waka Blessing","_seopress_titles_desc":"A special milestone our second waka taurua was blessed at beautiful Kaiteretere.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60,59],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kaiteretere","tag-waka-hourua"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tetaioawatea.org.nz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tetaioawatea.org.nz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tetaioawatea.org.nz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tetaioawatea.org.nz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tetaioawatea.org.nz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tetaioawatea.org.nz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2183,"href":"https:\/\/tetaioawatea.org.nz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/2183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tetaioawatea.org.nz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tetaioawatea.org.nz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tetaioawatea.org.nz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tetaioawatea.org.nz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}