{"id":22639,"date":"2020-09-11T12:50:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T03:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/11\/it-feels-like-no-one-can-be-bothered-with-the-new-zealand-election-any-more"},"modified":"2020-09-11T12:50:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T03:50:47","slug":"it-feels-like-no-one-can-be-bothered-with-the-new-zealand-election-any-more-claire-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22639","title":{"rendered":"It feels like no one can be bothered with the New Zealand election any more | Claire Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even Labour\u2019s tax policy cant\u2019t spark fury. The only numbers people are concerned about are coronavirus-related<\/p>\n<p>Parents will be only too familiar with this scenario. It\u2019s family holiday time. The car is packed with everything but the kitchen sink. Each child is strapped in with their own screen and headphones. You slip the car into gear and drive off. Finally you can let out a sigh of relief; the holiday has begun! Then a small voice from the back says: \u201cI need to go the toilet.\u201d You divert to the nearest petrol station, and sit back and wait for the journey to restart.<\/p>\n<p>That, folks, is the New Zealand general election campaign of 2020.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/11\/it-feels-like-no-one-can-be-bothered-with-the-new-zealand-election-any-more\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even Labour\u2019s tax policy cant\u2019t spark fury. The only numbers people are concerned about are coronavirus-relatedParents will be only too familiar with this scenario. It\u2019s family holiday time. The car is packed with everything but the kitchen sink. Each &#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":[41,268,56,933,944],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-winston-peters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639","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=22639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22640,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639\/revisions\/22640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}