{"id":33008,"date":"2021-06-12T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/11\/hello-possum-the-new-zealanders-who-keep-wild-marsupials-as-pets"},"modified":"2021-06-12T05:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T20:00:10","slug":"hello-possum-the-new-zealanders-who-keep-wild-marsupials-as-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33008","title":{"rendered":"Hello possum: the New Zealanders who keep wild marsupials as pets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The animals have a bad reputation in Aotearoa, where they are regarded as pests \u2013 but some say they are scapegoated for human failures<\/p>\n<p>Maurice likes to stay up all night. When he finally settles down at 5am, he makes sure everyone knows he\u2019s there \u2013 then he curls up and sleeps all day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he\u2019s ready to go to bed, he gives us a good face wash to say \u2018hi,\u2019\u201d Jo Little* says, laughing. \u201cHe\u2019s got really, really cold feet, and he puts them all over your head. He licks every area of your face!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/11\/hello-possum-the-new-zealanders-who-keep-wild-marsupials-as-pets\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The animals have a bad reputation in Aotearoa, where they are regarded as pests \u2013 but some say they are scapegoated for human failuresMaurice likes to stay up all night. When he finally settles down at 5am, he makes sure everyone knows he\u2019s there \u2013 the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2249,"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":[265,41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","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\/33008","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\/2249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33023,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33008\/revisions\/33023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}