{"id":26272,"date":"2021-01-02T04:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T19:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/01\/a-golden-ticket-the-tourists-who-sat-out-coronavirus-in-new-zealand"},"modified":"2021-01-02T04:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T19:00:17","slug":"golden-ticket-the-lucky-tourists-sitting-out-coronavirus-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26272","title":{"rendered":"Golden ticket: the lucky tourists sitting out coronavirus in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors from UK and North America tell of finding themselves with a pass to one of the best-rated pandemic responses in the world<\/p>\n<p>For Christmas 2019 Efrain Vega de Varona gave his partner plane tickets to New Zealand \u2013 her dream holiday destination. It has proved a gift that keeps on giving.<\/p>\n<p>A year later they are still in New Zealand, having decided to stay put at the end of their two-week holiday in mid-March rather than return to Los Angeles. \u201cWe\u2019ve been living out of two suitcases for 10 months,\u201d says Vega de Varona from their latest Airbnb rental (number 50-something this year) in Island Bay, Wellington.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/01\/a-golden-ticket-the-tourists-who-sat-out-coronavirus-in-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors from UK and North America tell of finding themselves with a pass to one of the best-rated pandemic responses in the worldFor Christmas 2019 Efrain Vega de Varona gave his partner plane tickets to New Zealand \u2013 her dream holiday destination. It&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1768,"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":[41,1066,914,512,916,56,299,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-new-zealand","category-science","category-us-news","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\/26272","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\/1768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26274,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26272\/revisions\/26274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}