{"id":16945,"date":"2020-04-07T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/07\/new-zealand-health-minister-demoted-after-beach-visit-broke-lockdown-rules"},"modified":"2020-04-07T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T01:47:00","slug":"new-zealand-health-minister-demoted-after-beach-visit-broke-lockdown-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16945","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand health minister demoted after beach visit broke lockdown rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Clark called himself an \u2018idiot\u2019 for driving his family 20km to the beach on the first weekend of the national stay-at-home measures<strong> <\/strong><\/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>New Zealand\u2019s health minister has been demoted after he ignored national lockdown rules and drove his family to a beach 20km from his home.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Dr David Clark was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/03\/new-zealand-health-minister-caught-mountain-biking-during-lockdown\">photographed going for a mountain bike<\/a> ride 2km away from his Dunedin home. He apologised for the incident, saying it showed poor judgment at a time when all New Zealanders were being urged to stay at home and only exercise in their local area.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/07\/new-zealand-health-minister-demoted-after-beach-visit-broke-lockdown-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Clark called himself an \u2018idiot\u2019 for driving his family 20km to the beach on the first weekend of the national stay-at-home measures Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand\u2019s health minister has been demoted after h&#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-16945","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\/16945","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=16945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16946,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16945\/revisions\/16946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}