{"id":23504,"date":"2020-10-06T21:40:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T12:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/06\/the-winner-of-the-third-nz-election-leaders-debate-death-jacinda-ardern-judith-collins"},"modified":"2020-10-06T21:40:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T12:40:47","slug":"the-winner-of-the-third-nz-election-leaders-debate-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23504","title":{"rendered":"The winner of the third NZ election leaders&#8217; debate? Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern and Judith Collins both bring B-game to seemingly interminable show<\/p>\n<p>Are we there yet? Is it election day? Is it possible to bring the date forward a little bit from 17 October? Not by too much \u2013 things have to be put in place, pens secured to pieces of string and the like. How\u2019s tomorrow?<\/p>\n<p>Election fatigue hit hard during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/06\/ardern-collins-new-zealand-party-leaders-clash-debate\">Tuesday night\u2019s leaders\u2019 debate<\/a>. It was a long programme. It could have been worse: it could still be going. Mind you, it feels like it still is and always will be; that the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, and the opposition leader, Judith Collins, will go at it unhappily ever after in front of a live audience in a dark room in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/06\/the-winner-of-the-third-nz-election-leaders-debate-death-jacinda-ardern-judith-collins\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda Ardern and Judith Collins both bring B-game to seemingly interminable showAre we there yet? Is it election day? Is it possible to bring the date forward a little bit from 17 October? Not by too much \u2013 things have to be put in place, pens secure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1570,"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":[41,268,1700,56,1594,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-judith-collins","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\/23504","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\/1570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23505,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23504\/revisions\/23505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}