{"id":22563,"date":"2020-09-09T15:02:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T06:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/09\/jacinda-ardern-begins-new-zealand-election-tour-at-parents-house-so-they-can-babysit"},"modified":"2020-09-09T15:02:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T06:02:34","slug":"jacinda-ardern-begins-new-zealand-election-tour-at-parents-house-so-they-can-babysit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22563","title":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern begins New Zealand election tour at parents&#8217; house so they can babysit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand prime minister starts campaign with a sleepover at the \u2018folks\u2019 in the small rural town of Waikato<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s prime minister has launched her election tour of the country from her parents\u2019 home in rural Waikato \u2013 so her \u201cfolks\u201d can babysit.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/17\/by-delaying-the-new-zealand-election-jacinda-ardern-appears-magnanimous-and-conciliatory\">rescheduled general election<\/a>, now taking place on 17 October, is unlike any the country has seen before, with party leaders hitting the campaign trail in face masks and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/09\/can-anything-stop-the-high-flying-jacinda-ardern\">practising social distancing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/09\/jacinda-ardern-begins-new-zealand-election-tour-at-parents-house-so-they-can-babysit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand prime minister starts campaign with a sleepover at the \u2018folks\u2019 in the small rural town of WaikatoNew Zealand\u2019s prime minister has launched her election tour of the country from her parents\u2019 home in rural Waikato \u2013 so her \u201cfolks\u201d can babysit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"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":[41,268,56,1594,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-election-2020","category-new-zealand-politics","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\/22563","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\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22574,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22563\/revisions\/22574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}