{"id":14894,"date":"2013-09-01T17:47:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T00:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=14894"},"modified":"2013-09-01T17:47:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T00:47:29","slug":"i-can-do-ya-one-better-borepatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/01\/i-can-do-ya-one-better-borepatch\/","title":{"rendered":"I can do ya one better, Borepatch ;-)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rugby, while not as bizarre as cricket, remains a mystery to me. But I&#8217;ve always gotten a kick out of the New Zealand AllBlacks and other Pacific Island rugby teams performing fierce, tribal <i>hakas<\/i> at each other before games.<\/p>\n<p>Today I learned from Borepatch that &#8212; srsly? &#8212; the good Mormons of Brigham Young University <a href=\"http:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2013\/09\/a-mormon-haka.html\" target=\"_blank\">also perform a haka before rugby games<\/a>. Yes. I agree it&#8217;s mind-boggling, Borepatch. Mormon haka.<\/p>\n<p>But I can do ya one better.* \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fbezkyh9pDM\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> is one of several (wouldn&#8217;t you know it) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=missionary+haka&#038;oq=missionary+haka&#038;gs_l=youtube.3...56283.58117.0.58462.11.8.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.\" target=\"_blank\">Mormon <i>missionary<\/i> hakas<\/a> on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Fbezkyh9pDM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So yes. Mormon haka. Still boggles the mind, though, dunnit? How&#8217;d you like to open your front door to a couple of guys doing <i>that<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>And now I do ya <i>two<\/i> better. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sIEP_wpqFvo\" target=\"_blank\">The world&#8217;s cutest haka<\/a>. Performed by three-year-olds. Embedding is disabled, so it&#8217;s off to YouTube for that one.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Just because it seemed time for a little lightening up around here &#8230;)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rugby, while not as bizarre as cricket, remains a mystery to me. But I&#8217;ve always gotten a kick out of the New Zealand AllBlacks and other Pacific Island rugby teams performing fierce, tribal hakas at each other before games. Today I learned from Borepatch that &#8212; srsly? &#8212; the good Mormons of Brigham Young University also perform a haka before rugby games. Yes. I agree it&#8217;s mind-boggling, Borepatch. Mormon haka. But I can do ya one better.* \ud83d\ude09 This is one of several (wouldn&#8217;t you know it) Mormon missionary hakas on YouTube: So yes. Mormon haka. Still boggles the mind,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/01\/i-can-do-ya-one-better-borepatch\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I can do ya one better, Borepatch \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-humor","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}