{"id":16089,"date":"2020-03-19T12:36:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T03:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/19\/escape-from-new-york-new-zealanders-face-chaos-and-cost-in-bid-to-return-home"},"modified":"2020-03-19T12:36:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T03:36:50","slug":"escape-from-new-york-new-zealanders-face-chaos-and-cost-in-bid-to-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16089","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Escape from New York&#8217;: New Zealanders face chaos and cost in bid to return home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the call went out for citizens to return, New Zealanders have encountered angry airport scenes, high prices and visa dilemmas<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It started with an ominous email: \u201cWe urge New Zealanders currently travelling overseas to consider returning home while commercial options remain available,\u201d the foreign affairs ministry wrote.<\/p>\n<p>For citizens of the nation at the bottom of the world, long-haul travel can be stressful at the best of times \u2013 returning from the northern hemisphere usually takes a full 24 hours, including multiple stopovers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/19\/escape-from-new-york-new-zealanders-face-chaos-and-cost-in-bid-to-return-home\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the call went out for citizens to return, New Zealanders have encountered angry airport scenes, high prices and visa dilemmasCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt started with an ominous email: \u201cWe urge New Zealanders cur&#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":[41,1069,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","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\/16089","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=16089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16090,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16089\/revisions\/16090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}