{"id":21517,"date":"2020-08-09T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/09\/australias-sheep-left-without-shearers-as-covid-halts-travel-from-new-zealand"},"modified":"2020-08-09T05:00:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T20:00:17","slug":"australias-sheep-left-without-shearers-as-covid-halts-travel-from-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21517","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s sheep left without shearers as Covid halts travel from New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nation is facing shortage of shearers for its 68 million sheep as hundreds are barred from taking their usual trip across the Tasman Sea<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a tradition that stretches back decades. Every year, hundreds of New Zealanders fly in to Australia for the spring shearing season \u2013 a huge mobilisation of workers essential to the success of the nation\u2019s wool industry.<\/p>\n<p>In dusty sheds on outback farms they join up with local shearers and, between them, relieve five million sheep of their fleeces over eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/09\/australias-sheep-left-without-shearers-as-covid-halts-travel-from-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nation is facing shortage of shearers for its 68 million sheep as hundreds are barred from taking their usual trip across the Tasman SeaIt\u2019s a tradition that stretches back decades. Every year, hundreds of New Zealanders fly in to Australia for the spr&#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":[265,41,43,1069,653,914,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-farming","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\/21517","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=21517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21518,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21517\/revisions\/21518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}