{"id":10215,"date":"2019-10-17T12:44:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T03:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/17\/youthquake-the-young-new-zealanders-voted-into-office-in-between-mcdonalds-shifts"},"modified":"2019-10-17T12:44:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T03:44:56","slug":"youthquake-the-young-new-zealanders-voted-into-office-in-between-mcdonalds-shifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10215","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Youthquake&#8217;: The young New Zealanders voted into office &ndash; in between McDonald&#8217;s shifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of elected officials under 30 doubled in city and district elections. Here a selection of them speak about their priorities<\/p>\n<p>They took gap years to stay at home and run for office. They list as their political heroes progressive leaders such as Jacinda Ardern and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And they plan to juggle their new roles as elected officials with university exams and shifts at McDonald\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The record number of young New Zealanders, some still in their teens, who surged to victory in the country\u2019s local government elections on Saturday \u2013 in what was dubbed a \u201cyouthquake\u201d by commentators \u2013 were not lured by dreams of high-profile posts in national politics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/17\/youthquake-the-young-new-zealanders-voted-into-office-in-between-mcdonalds-shifts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of elected officials under 30 doubled in city and district elections. Here a selection of them speak about their prioritiesThey took gap years to stay at home and run for office. They list as their political heroes progressive leaders such a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10216,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215\/revisions\/10216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}