{"id":16366,"date":"2020-03-26T13:50:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T04:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/26\/ardern-thanks-nation-as-new-zealand-adjusts-to-new-normal-of-covid-19-lockdown"},"modified":"2020-03-26T13:50:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T04:50:37","slug":"ardern-thanks-nation-as-new-zealand-adjusts-to-new-normal-of-covid-19-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16366","title":{"rendered":"Ardern thanks nation as New Zealand  adjusts to &#8216;new normal&#8217; of Covid-19 lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country of five million has 283 cases of coronavirus but Jacinda Ardern warns that may grow to thousands during month-long restrictions<\/p>\n<p>The sound of day one of New Zealand\u2019s nationwide lockdown was birdcall. Wood pigeons, tui and saddleback woke to quiet cities and towns, where their songs became the soundtrack to the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Many Kiwis rose late on Thursday, having no work or school to attend, and nothing to do beyond <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/25\/ardern-urges-new-zealanders-to-act-like-you-have-covid-19-as-lockdown-looms\">the prime minister\u2019s instructions<\/a> to \u201csave lives by staying home\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/26\/ardern-thanks-nation-as-new-zealand-adjusts-to-new-normal-of-covid-19-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country of five million has 283 cases of coronavirus but Jacinda Ardern warns that may grow to thousands during month-long restrictionsThe sound of day one of New Zealand\u2019s nationwide lockdown was birdcall. Wood pigeons, tui and saddleback woke to quie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"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":[41,1069,268,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-jacinda-ardern","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\/16366","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\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16367,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16366\/revisions\/16367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}