{"id":18701,"date":"2020-05-26T14:05:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T05:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/may\/26\/new-zealanders-like-jacinda-ardern-might-not-be-shocked-by-earthquakes-but-we-do-get-scared"},"modified":"2020-05-26T14:05:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T05:05:29","slug":"new-zealanders-like-jacinda-ardern-might-not-be-shocked-by-earthquakes-but-we-do-get-scared-charlotte-graham-mcclay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18701","title":{"rendered":"New Zealanders \u2013 like Jacinda Ardern \u2013 might not be shocked by earthquakes, but we do get scared | Charlotte Graham-McClay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us recognised ourselves in the PM\u2019s cool response to an earthquake on live TV, but we do fear the \u2018big one\u2019<\/p>\n<p>As I awoke to the bedroom shuddering and rattling around me on Monday morning, my first thought was a frantic household census, followed by the realisation that I was alone at home and not responsible for anyone\u2019s safety but my own. My second, before my eyes had even properly unstuck themselves from sleep, was: \u201cUgh, not this again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moments later, the earthquake \u2013 a magnitude 5.9 shake that hit about an hour\u2019s drive north of Wellington, New Zealand, where I live \u2013 was subsiding. It rattled the lower part of the North Island for just 15 seconds or so, long enough for a little tendril of fear to uncurl \u2013 would it build, or die away? Was this \u201cthe big one\u201d?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/may\/26\/new-zealanders-like-jacinda-ardern-might-not-be-shocked-by-earthquakes-but-we-do-get-scared\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us recognised ourselves in the PM\u2019s cool response to an earthquake on live TV, but we do fear the \u2018big one\u2019As I awoke to the bedroom shuddering and rattling around me on Monday morning, my first thought was a frantic household census, followed &#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":[41,263,268,157,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-earthquakes","category-jacinda-ardern","category-natural-disasters-and-extreme-weather","category-new-zealand","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\/18701","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=18701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18702,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18701\/revisions\/18702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}