{"id":32633,"date":"2021-05-31T09:07:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T00:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/31\/new-zealand-flooding-canterbury-state-of-emergency-evacuations-rescues"},"modified":"2021-05-31T09:07:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T00:07:08","slug":"new-zealand-flooding-state-of-emergency-in-canterbury-with-hundreds-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32633","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand flooding: state of emergency in Canterbury, with hundreds evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MetService has issued a red warning for heavy rain in Canterbury and multiple warnings elsewhere<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people have been evacuated and many more face the risk of abandoning their homes in New Zealand\u2019s Canterbury region as heavy rains raise water levels and cause widespread flooding.<\/p>\n<p>A state of emergency was declared for the entire Canterbury region and at least 300 homes were evacuated overnight as water levels rose in rivers across the region in a \u201cone-in-100-year deluge\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/300320793\/canterbury-flooding-what-you-need-to-know\">local media reports said<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/31\/new-zealand-flooding-canterbury-state-of-emergency-evacuations-rescues\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MetService has issued a red warning for heavy rain in Canterbury and multiple warnings elsewhereHundreds of people have been evacuated and many more face the risk of abandoning their homes in New Zealand\u2019s Canterbury region as heavy rains raise wat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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-32633","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\/32633","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32651,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32633\/revisions\/32651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}