{"id":16602,"date":"2020-03-30T11:44:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T02:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/30\/new-zealand-site-to-report-covid-19-rule-breakers-crashes-amid-spike-in-lockdown-anger"},"modified":"2020-03-30T11:44:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T02:44:24","slug":"new-zealand-site-to-report-covid-19-rule-breakers-crashes-amid-spike-in-lockdown-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16602","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand site to report Covid-19 rule-breakers crashes amid spike in lockdown anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since going live over the weekend, the site has crashed at least once due to complaints over people playing rugby or frisbee and holding parties<\/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>So many New Zealanders have reported their neighbours to the authorities for breaking lockdown rules that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.police.govt.nz\/105support\">new police website<\/a> to record such incidents crashed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=12320744&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nzh_fb&amp;fbclid=IwAR3cysdXqeoU4DpEOTO4YeLEMILUlauWUztoLeEsnDkOpwhydEZZK74LVt8\">More than 2,000 people rang an emergency police line last week<\/a> to report rule-breakers. As a result, a dedicated website was set up in the hope it would dissuade them from ringing 111.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/30\/new-zealand-site-to-report-covid-19-rule-breakers-crashes-amid-spike-in-lockdown-anger\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since going live over the weekend, the site has crashed at least once due to complaints over people playing rugby or frisbee and holding partiesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSo many New Zealanders have reported their neigh&#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":[41,1069,914,56,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand","category-science","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\/16602","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=16602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16603,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16602\/revisions\/16603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}