{"id":17911,"date":"2020-05-05T14:54:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T05:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/05\/new-zealand-councillor-caught-without-trousers-during-zoom-meeting"},"modified":"2020-05-05T14:54:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T05:54:51","slug":"new-zealand-councillor-caught-without-trousers-during-zoom-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17911","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand councillor caught without trousers during Zoom meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Benson-Pope caused a stir when he mistakenly appeared in a suit jacket and apparently little else during a virtual council meeting<\/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>A New Zealand councillor has been caught with his pants down during a council meeting, amusing colleagues and constituents by dusting his bookshelves in a suit jacket and apparently little else.<\/p>\n<p>Dunedin city council met via online platform Zoom on Monday, and veteran councillor David Benson-Pope caused a stir when he was caught walking into his book-lined study with bare legs, carrying a feather duster.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/05\/new-zealand-councillor-caught-without-trousers-during-zoom-meeting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Benson-Pope caused a stir when he mistakenly appeared in a suit jacket and apparently little else during a virtual council meetingCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA New Zealand councillor has been caught with his pants &#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":[41,1069,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911","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=17911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17912,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17911\/revisions\/17912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}