{"id":302,"date":"2013-05-08T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T19:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hicksvillecomics.com\/magicpen\/?p=302"},"modified":"2013-05-08T08:58:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T19:58:25","slug":"the-magic-pen-page-81-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hicksvillecomics.com\/magicpen\/the-magic-pen-page-81-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magic Pen &#8211; page 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Notes:<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Mark IV Rutherford Atomic Raygun<\/strong>: named for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ernest_Rutherford\">Ernest Rutherford<\/a> (1871-1937), a New Zealand-born physicist and chemist who was the first to &#8220;split the atom&#8221; in 1917.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ake ake ake<\/strong>: M\u0101ori war cry, from the words <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzhistory.net.nz\/people\/rewi-maniapoto\">Rewi Maniapoto<\/a> (Ng\u0101ti Paretekawa, ?-1894) cried at the Battle of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzhistory.net.nz\/war\/war-in-waikato\/battle-of-orakau\">\u014cr\u0101kau<\/a> in 1864 when called on to surrender: &#8220;Ka whawhai tonu m\u0101tou, Ake! Ake! Ake! &#8211; We will fight on for ever and ever!&#8221; Variations on the cry have been used ever since by New Zealand (especially M\u0101ori) soldiers and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aucklandmuseum.com\/1637\/ake-ake-kia-kaha:-the-spirit-of-maori-rugby\">sportspeople<\/a>. During World War Two, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M%C4%81ori_Battalion\">M\u0101ori Battalion<\/a> adopted the war cry &#8220;Ake ake kia kaha e! &#8211; Be strong for ever and ever!&#8221; (from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&#038;objectid=10432909\">battalion song<\/a>, composed in 1940 by Corporal Anaia Amohau). <\/p>\n<p><strong>An unorthodox tackle<\/strong>: Captain Rose is referring to rugby, of course. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes: Mark IV Rutherford Atomic Raygun: named for Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), a New Zealand-born physicist and chemist who was the first to &#8220;split the atom&#8221; in 1917. Ake ake ake: M\u0101ori war cry, from the words Rewi Maniapoto (Ng\u0101ti Paretekawa, ?-1894) cried at the Battle of \u014cr\u0101kau in 1864 when called on to surrender: &#8220;Ka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-themagicpen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hicksvillecomics.com\/magicpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hicksvillecomics.com\/magicpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hicksvillecomics.com\/magicpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hicksvillecomics.com\/magicpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hicksvillecomics.com\/magicpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/hicksvillecomics.com\/magicpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"http:\/\/hicksvillecomics.com\/magicpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hicksvillecomics.com\/magicpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hicksvillecomics.com\/magicpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hicksvillecomics.com\/magicpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}