{"id":24967,"date":"2020-11-20T14:21:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T05:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/20\/a-thrill-of-subtle-subversion-new-zealand-mps-share-their-love-of-thrifting"},"modified":"2020-11-20T14:21:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T05:21:28","slug":"a-thrill-of-subtle-subversion-new-zealand-mps-share-their-love-of-thrifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24967","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A thrill of subtle subversion&#8217;: New Zealand MPs share their love of thrifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aotearoa MPs are notorious for their love of \u2018op-shopping\u2019, and have offered advice to their US counterparts on the joy of buying second-hand<\/p>\n<p>After the US election, congresswoman Cori Bush kicked off a conversation on Twitter about the high cost of acquiring a professional work wardrobe for Washington, saying she was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/nov\/11\/what-to-wear-congress-cori-bush-aoc-women-politics-fashion\">heading to a secondhand shop<\/a> to stock up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality of being a regular person going to Congress is that it\u2019s really expensive to get the business clothes I need for the Hill. So I\u2019m going thrift shopping tomorrow,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/20\/a-thrill-of-subtle-subversion-new-zealand-mps-share-their-love-of-thrifting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aotearoa MPs are notorious for their love of \u2018op-shopping\u2019, and have offered advice to their US counterparts on the joy of buying second-handAfter the US election, congresswoman Cori Bush kicked off a conversation on Twitter about the high cost of acqu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"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":[41,576,78,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fashion","category-life-and-style","category-new-zealand","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\/24967","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\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24968,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24967\/revisions\/24968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}