{"id":20528,"date":"2020-07-14T11:21:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T02:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/14\/todd-mullers-resignation-is-a-national-nightmare-and-a-sign-of-a-toxic-political-culture"},"modified":"2020-07-14T11:21:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T02:21:31","slug":"todd-mullers-resignation-is-a-national-nightmare-and-a-sign-of-a-toxic-political-culture-richard-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20528","title":{"rendered":"Todd Muller&#8217;s resignation is a National nightmare &ndash; and a sign of a toxic political culture | Richard Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muller alluded to the job\u2019s toll on his health and that of his family, just two months out from the election<\/p>\n<p>And then there were none. <\/p>\n<p>Early this morning the National Party caucus awoke to a nightmare. Todd Muller, their newly minted leader of some 53 days, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/14\/new-zealand-opposition-leader-todd-muller-resigns-just-weeks-before-election\">had resigned his position.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/14\/todd-mullers-resignation-is-a-national-nightmare-and-a-sign-of-a-toxic-political-culture\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muller alluded to the job\u2019s toll on his health and that of his family, just two months out from the electionAnd then there were none. Early this morning the National Party caucus awoke to a nightmare. Todd Muller, their newly minted leader of some 53 d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1448,"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":[41,268,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","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\/20528","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\/1448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20529,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528\/revisions\/20529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}