{"id":16242,"date":"2020-03-23T09:42:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T00:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/23\/gangs-of-new-zealand-explosion-of-violence-prompts-fears-police-have-lost-control"},"modified":"2020-03-23T09:42:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T00:42:01","slug":"gangs-of-new-zealand-explosion-of-violence-prompts-fears-police-have-lost-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16242","title":{"rendered":"Gangs of New Zealand: explosion of violence prompts fears police have lost control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gangs have existed for decades in New Zealand but years of low-key activity has been shattered by recent wars between rivals<\/p>\n<p>On a Sunday afternoon in November last year, children clambered over an adventure playground as their parents watched from under shady trees in a park in an affluent suburb of Napier, on New Zealand\u2019s North Island.<\/p>\n<p>The suburban scene was interrupted as two bikie gangs carrying baseball bats and sharpened metal weapons appeared and set upon each other nearby, leaving one man unconscious and onlookers terrified.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/23\/gangs-of-new-zealand-explosion-of-violence-prompts-fears-police-have-lost-control\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gangs have existed for decades in New Zealand but years of low-key activity has been shattered by recent wars between rivalsOn a Sunday afternoon in November last year, children clambered over an adventure playground as their parents watched from under&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1147,"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":[41,1067,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-gangs","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\/16242","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\/1147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16243,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242\/revisions\/16243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}