{"id":22427,"date":"2020-09-04T09:20:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T00:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/04\/james-shaws-mea-culpa-on-green-school-funding-exposed-his-lack-of-political-nous"},"modified":"2020-09-04T09:20:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T00:20:47","slug":"james-shaws-mea-culpa-on-school-funding-exposed-his-lack-of-political-nous-claire-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22427","title":{"rendered":"James Shaw&#8217;s mea culpa on school funding exposed his lack of political nous | Claire Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Green party leader came under fire from many quarters over the project, including supporters who asked how he could make such a mistake<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>When Green party leader, James Shaw, apologised for backing the use of public funds for a private school last week, he ventured down a well-trodden path of the political mea culpa to save his own skin before October\u2019s election. While he\u2019s not the first person to row back a policy in New Zealand politics, or during this Covid pandemic, whether he survives may have as much to do with how he manages the public\u2019s perception of him as a leader, as it does with the nature of his mistake.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/04\/james-shaws-mea-culpa-on-green-school-funding-exposed-his-lack-of-political-nous\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green party leader came under fire from many quarters over the project, including supporters who asked how he could make such a mistake When Green party leader, James Shaw, apologised for backing the use of public funds for a private school last week, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1547,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22427","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\/1547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22428,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22427\/revisions\/22428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}