{"id":22535,"date":"2020-09-08T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T01:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/08\/nzhellhole-how-kiwis-are-hitting-back-at-trumps-covid-taunts"},"modified":"2020-09-08T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T01:20:09","slug":"nzhellhole-how-kiwis-are-hitting-back-at-trumps-covid-taunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22535","title":{"rendered":"#NZhellhole: how Kiwis are hitting back at Trump&#8217;s Covid taunts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August the US president said New Zealand was seeing a \u2018big surge\u2019 in cases, but it only reminded people of how well they had done<\/p>\n<p>Following comments by Donald Trump that New Zealand was dealing with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/18\/trump-calls-out-new-zealands-big-surge-on-day-it-records-nine-covid-cases\">\u201cbig surge<\/a>\u201d of new Covid-19 cases, Kiwis have snapped back with some light social media trolling under the hashtag #NZhellhole, which has trended at number two on New Zealand Twitter. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/08\/nzhellhole-how-kiwis-are-hitting-back-at-trumps-covid-taunts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August the US president said New Zealand was seeing a \u2018big surge\u2019 in cases, but it only reminded people of how well they had doneFollowing comments by Donald Trump that New Zealand was dealing with a \u201cbig surge\u201d of new Covid-19 cases, Kiwis have sna&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"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":[41,1069,268,56,299,554,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-science","category-trump-administration","category-us-news","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\/22535","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\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22536,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22535\/revisions\/22536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}