{"id":25420,"date":"2020-12-06T04:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/dec\/06\/airports-are-portals-to-escape-but-in-new-zealand-there-is-no-way-out"},"modified":"2020-12-06T04:00:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T19:00:49","slug":"airports-are-portals-to-escape-but-in-new-zealand-there-is-no-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25420","title":{"rendered":"Airports are portals to escape, but in New Zealand there is no way out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lights are on, but the party\u2019s over &#8211; in the time of Covid, we can\u2019t even buy duty-free<\/p>\n<p>Everything seemed just the same when I flew into Wellington this week, which is to say the last 10 minutes were a living hell. Hello turbulence, my old friend. The plane sank like a rock, the wind picked it up again and flung it left, then right; down below, the waters of Cook Street boiled and fumed. But it\u2019s a familiar nightmare. It\u2019s just the way it almost always is when you fly into Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>The truly disorienting part of arriving was walking through Wellington domestic airport.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/dec\/06\/airports-are-portals-to-escape-but-in-new-zealand-there-is-no-way-out\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lights are on, but the party\u2019s over &#8211; in the time of Covid, we can\u2019t even buy duty-freeEverything seemed just the same when I flew into Wellington this week, which is to say the last 10 minutes were a living hell. Hello turbulence, my old friend. T&#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":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","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\/25420","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=25420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25421,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25420\/revisions\/25421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}