{"id":30630,"date":"2021-04-06T08:58:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T23:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/06\/new-zealand-minister-kiri-allan-to-take-medical-leave-after-cervical-cancer-diagnosis"},"modified":"2021-04-06T08:58:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T23:58:01","slug":"new-zealand-minister-kiri-allan-to-take-medical-leave-after-cervical-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30630","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand minister Kiri Allan to take medical leave after cervical cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency management minister calls on other women to get smear tests as she begins \u2018fight of my life\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Kiri Allan, the minister who guided New Zealand through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/04\/new-zealand-tsunami-warning-after-69-magnitude-earthquake\">recent tsunami and earthquake warnings<\/a>, has been diagnosed with stage three cervical cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Allan won praise for her calm handling of last month\u2019s earthquakes and tsunami warning. A series of earthquakes ranging from 7.1 to 8.1 magnitude hit off the East Cape and Kermadec Islands in the early hours of 5 March, prompting an evacuation of some towns and cities on the coast of New Zealand\u2019s North Island.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/06\/new-zealand-minister-kiri-allan-to-take-medical-leave-after-cervical-cancer-diagnosis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency management minister calls on other women to get smear tests as she begins \u2018fight of my life\u2019Kiri Allan, the minister who guided New Zealand through recent tsunami and earthquake warnings, has been diagnosed with stage three cervical cancer.Al&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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-30630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/30630","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30631,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30630\/revisions\/30631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}