{"id":29434,"date":"2021-03-08T14:57:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T05:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/08\/new-zealand-arderns-decision-to-drop-regular-interview-gives-fuel-to-political-foes"},"modified":"2021-03-08T14:57:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T05:57:41","slug":"new-zealand-arderns-decision-to-drop-regular-interview-gives-fuel-to-political-foes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29434","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand: Ardern&#8217;s decision to drop regular interview gives fuel to political foes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister was already under fire for her recent handling of the Auckland Covid outbreak<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/jacinda-ardern\">Jacinda Ardern<\/a>, has cancelled one of her highest-profile regular media appearances, surprising commentators and fuelling criticism that she is dodging tough questions.<\/p>\n<p>Newstalk ZB\u2019s morning show host Mike Hosking on Monday announced that Ardern would no longer be appearing for a weekly interview: a regular segment observed by New Zealand\u2019s prime ministers for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/08\/new-zealand-arderns-decision-to-drop-regular-interview-gives-fuel-to-political-foes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister was already under fire for her recent handling of the Auckland Covid outbreakNew Zealand\u2019s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has cancelled one of her highest-profile regular media appearances, surprising commentators and fuelling criticism&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1833,"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":[41,268,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","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\/29434","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\/1833"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29436,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29434\/revisions\/29436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}