{"id":23920,"date":"2020-10-17T23:50:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T14:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/17\/new-zealanders-have-recognised-the-good-luck-that-jacinda-ardern-is-ours"},"modified":"2020-10-17T23:50:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T14:50:31","slug":"new-zealanders-have-recognised-the-good-luck-that-jacinda-ardern-is-ours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23920","title":{"rendered":"New Zealanders have recognised the good luck that Jacinda Ardern is ours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As prime minister, Ardern inspired love and trust; now she has to do something with it<\/p>\n<p>And the winner is \u2026 New Zealand. It was the happiness election \u2013 Covid fizzled out, lockdown was released, and a sense of gratitude and sheer joy buoyed Jacinda Ardern through a long campaign to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/17\/jacinda-arderns-labour-party-set-for-victory-in-new-zealand-election\">Saturday<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/17\/jacinda-arderns-labour-party-set-for-victory-in-new-zealand-election\">\u2019s landslide victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s keep moving,\u201d Labour\u2019s campaign slogan urged, but in reality it was much more a case of: \u201cLet\u2019s stick with what we\u2019ve got, so actually let\u2019s not, you know, move\u201d. The alternative \u2013 National\u2019s Judith Collins \u2013 was too appalling a prospect.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/17\/new-zealanders-have-recognised-the-good-luck-that-jacinda-ardern-is-ours\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As prime minister, Ardern inspired love and trust; now she has to do something with itAnd the winner is \u2026 New Zealand. It was the happiness election \u2013 Covid fizzled out, lockdown was released, and a sense of gratitude and sheer joy buoyed Jacinda Arder&#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":[41,268,56,1594,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-election-2020","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\/23920","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=23920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23930,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23920\/revisions\/23930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}