{"id":23568,"date":"2020-10-08T18:31:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T09:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/08\/new-zealand-national-party-leader-yearns-for-the-star-treatment"},"modified":"2020-10-08T18:31:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T09:31:30","slug":"new-zealand-national-party-leader-yearns-for-the-star-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23568","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand National party leader yearns for the star treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the election Judith Collins is up against one of the most popular PMs in recent times<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been having an awfully fun time, can you tell?\u201d, Judith Collins, the leader of New Zealand\u2019s centre-right National party enthused, to a campaign trail meeting packed with her admirers outside the South Island city of Dunedin. \u201cI can\u2019t stop grinning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was true; she could not. Collins, the country\u2019s opposition leader, is running in the 17 October election against one of the country\u2019s most popular prime ministers of recent times, Jacinda Ardern, who is mobbed for selfies wherever she goes \u2013 with such large and closely-packed crowds that security and Covid-19 precautions often appear to be cast aside.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/08\/new-zealand-national-party-leader-yearns-for-the-star-treatment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the election Judith Collins is up against one of the most popular PMs in recent times\u201cI\u2019ve been having an awfully fun time, can you tell?\u201d, Judith Collins, the leader of New Zealand\u2019s centre-right National party enthused, to a campaign trail meeting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"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":[41,268,1700,56,1594,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23568","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-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23568","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\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23588,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23568\/revisions\/23588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}