{"id":19110,"date":"2020-06-09T13:17:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T04:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/09\/a-beautiful-day-new-zealand-handshakes-and-hugs-its-way-back-to-pre-covid-19-life"},"modified":"2020-06-09T13:17:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T04:17:19","slug":"a-beautiful-day-new-zealand-handshakes-and-hugs-its-way-back-to-pre-covid-19-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19110","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A beautiful day&#8217;: New Zealand handshakes and hugs its way back to pre-Covid-19 life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There may be tough economic times, and fresh cases, ahead but for now New Zealanders can enjoy a day free of coronavirus restrictions<\/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>\u201cI just had a meeting with someone and I thought, \u2018Do I shake your hand?\u2019\u201d says Casey Allum, who was among those flocking to eat lunch at Wellington\u2019s sunny, sparkling waterfront on Tuesday. Handshakes had been verboten until midnight on Monday, as people were required to stay a metre apart from colleagues, or two metres from strangers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen he came in with the handshake,\u201d Allum says. \u201cAnd I thought, \u2018Oh sweet, that\u2019s easy\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/09\/a-beautiful-day-new-zealand-handshakes-and-hugs-its-way-back-to-pre-covid-19-life\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may be tough economic times, and fresh cases, ahead but for now New Zealanders can enjoy a day free of coronavirus restrictionsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage\u201cI just had a meeting with someone and I thought, \u2018Do I sha&#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":[41,1069,914,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","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\/19110","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=19110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19111,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19110\/revisions\/19111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}