{"id":24383,"date":"2020-11-02T14:21:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T05:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/02\/voting-opens-in-new-zealands-beloved-bird-of-the-year-competition"},"modified":"2020-11-02T14:21:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T05:21:33","slug":"voting-opens-in-new-zealands-beloved-bird-of-the-year-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24383","title":{"rendered":"Voting opens in New Zealand&#8217;s beloved Bird of the Year competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What started 15 years ago as a modest promotion to draw attention to native birds, many of which are endangered, has become a phenomenon<\/p>\n<p>Normally on a post test-match Monday in New Zealand, the talk is all about the national rugby team\u2019s latest performance. But this week, while the All Blacks\u2019 destruction of the Wallabies was on everyones\u2019 lips, there was another topic of conversation: birds. <\/p>\n<p>Voting began on Monday in the hotly contested and brutal election of New Zealand\u2019s Bird Of The Year. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/02\/voting-opens-in-new-zealands-beloved-bird-of-the-year-competition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What started 15 years ago as a modest promotion to draw attention to native birds, many of which are endangered, has become a phenomenonNormally on a post test-match Monday in New Zealand, the talk is all about the national rugby team\u2019s latest performa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1368,"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":[265,41,337,65,56,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-birds","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-wildlife"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24383","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\/1368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24384,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24383\/revisions\/24384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}