{"id":17403,"date":"2020-04-21T10:32:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T01:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/21\/a-strict-covid-19-lockdown-gave-new-zealand-a-key-ingredient-to-recover-solidarity"},"modified":"2020-04-21T10:32:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T01:32:34","slug":"a-strict-covid-19-lockdown-gave-new-zealand-a-key-ingredient-to-recover-solidarity-morgan-godfery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17403","title":{"rendered":"A strict Covid-19 lockdown gave New Zealand a key ingredient to recover \u2013 solidarity | Morgan Godfery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pulling together in a time of crisis, where the burden falls so unevenly, is just what will help us to rebuild in a post-Covid-19 world<\/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>I feel like a New Zealand patriot.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m hardly a nationalist, and as a leftist, my dominant mode is bitter defeat, expecting it in almost every circumstance. But as the country prepares to move from alert level four to alert level three \u2013 meaning from a major lockdown to a moderate lockdown \u2013 patriotism seems irresistible. In the prime minister, yes, in the public service, for sure, and in the essential-service workers stocking the supermarket shelves, staffing the ports and distribution centres, and caring for Covid-19 patients in hospitals and the community. It almost feels detaching, especially as countries like the US and UK hit their peaks, that life in these islands could resume as normal, as if the virus were only a four-week nightmare.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/21\/a-strict-covid-19-lockdown-gave-new-zealand-a-key-ingredient-to-recover-solidarity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulling together in a time of crisis, where the burden falls so unevenly, is just what will help us to rebuild in a post-Covid-19 worldCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageI feel like a New Zealand patriot.I\u2019m hardly a nationalis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"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":[41,1069,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","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\/17403","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\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17404,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17403\/revisions\/17404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}