{"id":16678,"date":"2020-03-31T10:02:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T01:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/31\/bear-hunt-helps-banish-coronavirus-boredom-for-new-zealand-children"},"modified":"2020-03-31T10:02:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T01:02:56","slug":"bear-hunt-helps-banish-coronavirus-boredom-for-new-zealand-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16678","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bear hunt&#8217; helps banish coronavirus boredom for New Zealand children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teddies appear in windows across the country \u2013 and the world \u2013 in a bid to entertain isolated children<\/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\/2020\/mar\/31\/tougher-new-zealand-rules-on-covid-19-could-set-it-apart-as-normal-nation-after-lockdown\">Tougher New Zealand rules on Covid-19 could set it apart as \u2018normal\u2019 nation after lockdown<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A nationwide teddy bear hunt is helping keep New Zealand\u2019s children occupied during the country\u2019s month-long coronavirus lockdown, with tens of thousands of homes taking part, including the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has more than 600 confirmed cases of coronavirus and is in the midst of a quarantine period, one of the strictest enforcements anywhere in the world. Going outside is prohibited unless for essential supplies such as food and medicine, or a brief respite of exercise and fresh air, taken locally.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/31\/bear-hunt-helps-banish-coronavirus-boredom-for-new-zealand-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teddies appear in windows across the country \u2013 and the world \u2013 in a bid to entertain isolated childrenCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesTougher New Zealand rules on Covid-19 could set it apart as \u2018normal\u2019 nation after lockdownSee all our coronavirus coverage&#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":[41,245,1069,914,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-children","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16678","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=16678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16679,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16678\/revisions\/16679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}