{"id":21859,"date":"2020-08-20T09:53:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T00:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/20\/celebrity-cat-in-the-running-to-be-new-zealander-of-the-year"},"modified":"2020-08-20T09:53:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T00:53:37","slug":"celebrity-cat-called-mittens-in-the-running-to-be-new-zealander-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21859","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity cat called Mittens in the running to be New Zealander of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also making the cut are PM Jacinda Ardern and the director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield<\/p>\n<p>A celebrity cat, a hardworking civil servant and the prime minister have all been nominated for this year\u2019s New Zealander of the year award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this extraordinary year, we know that everyone has a hero,\u201d Miriama Kamo, the patron of the awards, said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/20\/celebrity-cat-in-the-running-to-be-new-zealander-of-the-year\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also making the cut are PM Jacinda Ardern and the director-general of health Dr Ashley BloomfieldA celebrity cat, a hardworking civil servant and the prime minister have all been nominated for this year\u2019s New Zealander of the year award.\u201cIn this extrao&#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":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/21859","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=21859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21860,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21859\/revisions\/21860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}