{"id":14138,"date":"2020-02-10T15:10:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T06:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/10\/calls-to-save-radio-new-zealand-classical-music-station-reach-crescendo"},"modified":"2020-02-10T15:10:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T06:10:22","slug":"calls-to-save-radio-new-zealand-classical-music-station-reach-crescendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14138","title":{"rendered":"Calls to save Radio New Zealand classical music station reach crescendo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plans to cut Radio New Zealand Concert and replace it with a youth station meet resistance from die-hard fans<\/p>\n<p>Radio New Zealand Concert, the staid classical music arm of Radio New Zealand, does not usually create headlines. But the hackles of classical music lovers across the nation have been raised after the public broadcaster announced it was cutting much of the station to make way for programmes targeted at a younger audience.<\/p>\n<p>The ensuing furore has sparked disputes on social media about whether classical music is elitist or only for the elderly and prompted the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, to wade in.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/10\/calls-to-save-radio-new-zealand-classical-music-station-reach-crescendo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans to cut Radio New Zealand Concert and replace it with a youth station meet resistance from die-hard fansRadio New Zealand Concert, the staid classical music arm of Radio New Zealand, does not usually create headlines. But the hackles of classical &#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":[41,71,425,56,663,519,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-music","category-new-zealand","category-radio","category-television-radio","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138","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=14138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14139,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138\/revisions\/14139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}