{"id":17562,"date":"2020-04-26T11:22:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T02:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/26\/marama-davidson-parliament-is-a-little-insulated-bubble-of-disconnection"},"modified":"2020-04-26T11:22:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T02:22:02","slug":"marama-davidson-parliament-is-a-little-insulated-bubble-of-disconnection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17562","title":{"rendered":"Marama Davidson: parliament is a little, insulated bubble of disconnection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The co-leader of New Zealand\u2019s Green party is uneasy with power, but is embracing the chance to make a difference <\/p>\n<p>When Marama Davidson, ahead of an official trip to New Zealand\u2019s Hawkes Bay, found out that low-income families living in motels there would be evicted to make way for visiting dignitaries like her, she refused to be part of it.<\/p>\n<p>After Davidson \u2013 co-leader of the left-leaning Green party that is part of New Zealand\u2019s power-sharing government led by Jacinda Ardern\u2019s Labour \u2013 saw the headlines, she cancelled the booking and packed a tent in her suitcase instead.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/26\/marama-davidson-parliament-is-a-little-insulated-bubble-of-disconnection\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The co-leader of New Zealand\u2019s Green party is uneasy with power, but is embracing the chance to make a difference When Marama Davidson, ahead of an official trip to New Zealand\u2019s Hawkes Bay, found out that low-income families living in motels there wou&#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":[41,268,56,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","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\/17562","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=17562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17563,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17562\/revisions\/17563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}