{"id":17421,"date":"2020-04-21T14:19:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T05:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/21\/ardern-accused-of-making-new-zealand-businesses-sacrificial-lambs-in-covid-19-lockdown"},"modified":"2020-04-21T14:19:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T05:19:49","slug":"ardern-accused-of-making-new-zealand-businesses-sacrificial-lambs-in-covid-19-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17421","title":{"rendered":"Ardern accused of making New Zealand businesses &#8216;sacrificial lambs&#8217; in Covid-19 lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National party leader Simon Bridges scraps political truce, telling PM extending lockdown does more harm than lifting it <\/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>Jacinda Ardern\u2019s political opponents have condemned her decision to keep the country\u2019s tough lockdown restrictions in place for a further five days beyond the initial four-week lockdown period. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have stopped a wave of devastation,\u201d the prime ministersaid on Monday as she announced that the strictest period of national shutdown would continue until just before midnight on Monday 27 April. Marginally looser rules \u2013 level-3 restrictions \u2013 will then be in place until 11 May.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/21\/ardern-accused-of-making-new-zealand-businesses-sacrificial-lambs-in-covid-19-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National party leader Simon Bridges scraps political truce, telling PM extending lockdown does more harm than lifting it Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJacinda Ardern\u2019s political opponents have condemned her decision to kee&#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":[41,1069,56,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17421","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=17421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17422,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17421\/revisions\/17422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}