{"id":2948,"date":"2011-05-03T17:15:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T00:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2011-05-01T17:26:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T00:26:20","slug":"maori-kapa-haka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2011\/05\/maori-kapa-haka\/","title":{"rendered":"Maori Kapa Haka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_2040trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_2040trim-800x666.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"maori kapa haka dance new zealand luau sou\" width=\"800\" height=\"666\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_2040trim-800x666.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_2040trim-250x208.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_2040trim.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even though this was a <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/japanese-hula-dancers\/>Hawaiian Luau<\/a>, put on by the SOU Hawaii Club, not all of the dances were from Hawaii. In fact, I think more than half were from elsewhere. The photos in today&#8217;s post are from the final performance of the evening. I think it was called the Kapa Haka.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_1978trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_1978trim-800x580.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kapa haka scary maori dance from native new zealanders southern oregon university hawaii club luau\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_1978trim-800x580.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_1978trim-250x181.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_1978trim.jpg 1489w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The above picture may look like a poorly taken photo (because it was thanks to the poor lighting conditions at the beginning of the dance), but it actually captures the feeling of the dance quite well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_2033trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_2033trim-800x717.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tongue sticking out maori dance\" width=\"800\" height=\"717\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_2033trim-800x717.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_2033trim-250x224.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_2033trim.jpg 1205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_1982trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_1982trim-460x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"muscle man maori dancer\" width=\"460\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2953\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_1982trim-460x800.jpg 460w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_1982trim-143x250.jpg 143w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_1982trim.jpg 622w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_1995trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_1995trim-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"war painted faces maori kapa haka\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_1995trim-800x537.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_1995trim-250x168.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_1995trim.jpg 1606w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_2005trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_2005trim-731x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"haka haka maori southern oregon university dancers luau sou mcniel pavilion\" width=\"731\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_2005trim-731x800.jpg 731w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_2005trim-228x250.jpg 228w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_2005trim.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though this was a Hawaiian Luau, put on by the SOU Hawaii Club, not all of the dances were from Hawaii. In fact, I think more than half were from elsewhere. The photos in today&#8217;s post are from the final performance of the evening. I think it was called the Kapa Haka. The above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,11],"tags":[98,395,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2956,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}