{"id":12582,"date":"2020-01-01T09:17:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T00:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/01\/apocalyptic-new-zealand-shrouded-in-smoke-from-australian-bushfires"},"modified":"2020-01-01T09:17:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T00:17:41","slug":"apocalyptic-new-zealand-shrouded-in-smoke-from-australian-bushfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12582","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Apocalyptic&#8217;: New Zealand shrouded in smoke from Australian bushfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swathes of the South Island are affected by haze with the sky in places turning orange <\/p>\n<p>New Zealanders in the South Island of the country have woken up to a red sun and orange skies on new year\u2019s day, with the smoke from Australia\u2019s catastrophic bushfires drifting east overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Met Service forecaster Cameron Coutts said the intensity of the Australian bushfires in the past few days had fuelled the New Zealand haze, and this was the fourth time this summer New Zealand had been affected by fires across the Tasman. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/01\/apocalyptic-new-zealand-shrouded-in-smoke-from-australian-bushfires\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swathes of the South Island are affected by haze with the sky in places turning orange New Zealanders in the South Island of the country have woken up to a red sun and orange skies on new year\u2019s day, with the smoke from Australia\u2019s catastrophic bushfir&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":816,"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":[41,43,1027,157,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-bushfires","category-natural-disasters-and-extreme-weather","category-new-zealand","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\/12582","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\/816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12583,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12582\/revisions\/12583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}