{"id":31834,"date":"2021-05-07T11:22:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T02:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/07\/new-zealand-man-threatened-with-prosecution-over-penis-pothole-drawings"},"modified":"2021-05-07T11:22:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T02:22:01","slug":"new-zealand-man-threatened-with-prosecution-over-penis-pothole-drawings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31834","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand man threatened with prosecution over penis pothole drawings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Upson says he has drawn about 100 penises around potholes in a bid to force his local council to fix them<\/p>\n<p>A New Zealand man who began drawing very large penises around the potholes in his home city of Auckland in 2018 in the hopes of attracting the attention of his local council has been threatened with police action.<\/p>\n<p>In a video, road safety campaigner Geoff Upson made after the most recent addition to his oeuvre, saying: \u201cI\u2019m about sick of calling Auckland transport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/07\/new-zealand-man-threatened-with-prosecution-over-penis-pothole-drawings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Upson says he has drawn about 100 penises around potholes in a bid to force his local council to fix themA New Zealand man who began drawing very large penises around the potholes in his home city of Auckland in 2018 in the hopes of attracting th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"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-31834","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\/31834","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\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31847,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31834\/revisions\/31847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}