{"id":11761,"date":"2019-12-03T14:17:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T05:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/03\/new-zealand-newspaper-publishes-cartoon-mocking-samoa-measles-crisis"},"modified":"2019-12-03T14:17:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T05:17:42","slug":"new-zealand-newspaper-publishes-cartoon-mocking-samoa-measles-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11761","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand newspaper publishes cartoon mocking Samoa measles crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Otago Daily Times criticised for cartoon joking about measles outbreak that has killed 55<\/p>\n<p>A New Zealand newspaper has caused outrage for publishing a cartoon that made light of the measles crisis engulfing Samoa, which has killed 55 people so far, most of them children under the age of four.<\/p>\n<p>The Otago Daily Times published the cartoon in Tuesday\u2019s newspaper from artist Chris Tremain, which depicted two white women walking out of a travel agent, one saying to the other: \u201cI asked \u2018What are the least popular spots at the moment?\u2019 She said: \u2018The ones people are picking up in Samoa.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/03\/new-zealand-newspaper-publishes-cartoon-mocking-samoa-measles-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Otago Daily Times criticised for cartoon joking about measles outbreak that has killed 55A New Zealand newspaper has caused outrage for publishing a cartoon that made light of the measles crisis engulfing Samoa, which has killed 55 people so far, most &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"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":[41,914,56,874,936,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands","category-samoa","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761","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\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11762,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761\/revisions\/11762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}