{"id":30703,"date":"2021-04-08T10:09:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T01:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/08\/new-zealand-pike-river-families-urge-minister-to-continue-mission-to-recover-victims"},"modified":"2021-04-08T10:09:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T01:09:50","slug":"broken-promise-pike-river-families-urge-minister-to-continue-mission-to-recover-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30703","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Broken promise\u2019: Pike River families urge minister to continue mission to recover victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Families say they were \u2018blindsided\u2019 by last week\u2019s announcement and that many opposed it<\/p>\n<p>Families of the miners killed in the Pike River mining disaster say they disagree with the representative group who last week accepted the government\u2019s decision to stop funding efforts to recover bodies or evidence from the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-nine men were killed when an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/19\/pike-river-mine-disaster-10-years-on-families-mark-painful-anniversary\"> explosion ripped through the Pike River mine<\/a> on the west coast in November 2010. Their bodies remain in the mine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/08\/new-zealand-pike-river-families-urge-minister-to-continue-mission-to-recover-victims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families say they were \u2018blindsided\u2019 by last week\u2019s announcement and that many opposed itFamilies of the miners killed in the Pike River mining disaster say they disagree with the representative group who last week accepted the government\u2019s decision to &#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-30703","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\/30703","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=30703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30704,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30703\/revisions\/30704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}