{"id":13657,"date":"2020-02-04T11:27:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T02:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/04\/new-zealand-100-hikers-cut-off-after-deluge-destroys-roads-and-sparks-landslides"},"modified":"2020-02-04T11:27:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T02:27:06","slug":"new-zealand-100-hikers-cut-off-after-deluge-destroys-roads-and-sparks-landslides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13657","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand: 100 hikers cut off after deluge destroys roads and sparks landslides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two hikers injured by landslide as helicopters ferry those stranded to nearby town in South Island<\/p>\n<p>About 100 hikers are being rescued by helicopter after becoming stranded overnight on popular bush tracks in New Zealand\u2019s South Island when a month\u2019s rainfall in a single day washed out roads and bridges and caused flooding and landslides.<\/p>\n<p>Eight helicopters and waiting buses ferried the hikers stuck in shelters in Fiordland \u2013 and about 70 drivers trapped on the Milford Road \u2013 to safety in the town of Te Anau. Two of the hikers were injured when the hut they were sheltering in was hit by a landslide.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/04\/new-zealand-100-hikers-cut-off-after-deluge-destroys-roads-and-sparks-landslides\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two hikers injured by landslide as helicopters ferry those stranded to nearby town in South IslandAbout 100 hikers are being rescued by helicopter after becoming stranded overnight on popular bush tracks in New Zealand\u2019s South Island when a month\u2019s rai&#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-13657","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\/13657","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=13657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13658,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657\/revisions\/13658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}