{"id":16947,"date":"2020-04-07T10:34:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T01:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/07\/bored-and-anxious-new-zealanders-turn-to-exercise-shaming-as-lockdown-grinds-on"},"modified":"2020-04-07T10:34:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T01:34:55","slug":"bored-and-anxious-new-zealanders-turn-to-exercise-shaming-as-lockdown-grinds-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16947","title":{"rendered":"Bored and anxious New Zealanders turn to exercise shaming as lockdown grinds on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of clarity from the government on how far people are allowed to walk from their homes has led to confusion and abuse<\/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 Zealanders are usually pragmatic people who don\u2019t put much stock in strict adherence to rules. But almost a fortnight into restrictive nationwide lockdown measures intended to halt the spread of Covid-19, a bored and anxious public has developed an obsession with the single grey area in the shutdown rules: going outside to exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Prime minister Jacinda Ardern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/26\/ardern-thanks-nation-as-new-zealand-adjusts-to-new-normal-of-covid-19-lockdown\">activated a four-week lockdown<\/a> on 25 March that requires New Zealanders to stay in their homes unless they are accessing essential services \u2013 such as groceries or medical help \u2013 or heading outside for fresh air.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/07\/bored-and-anxious-new-zealanders-turn-to-exercise-shaming-as-lockdown-grinds-on\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of clarity from the government on how far people are allowed to walk from their homes has led to confusion and abuseCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealanders are usually pragmatic people who don\u2019t put much stock in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"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-16947","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\/16947","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\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16948,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16947\/revisions\/16948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}