{"id":34186,"date":"2021-07-19T10:58:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T01:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/19\/new-zealand-west-coast-hit-by-heavy-floods-after-month-of-rain-falls-in-one-weekend"},"modified":"2021-07-19T10:58:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T01:58:17","slug":"new-zealand-west-coast-hit-by-heavy-floods-after-month-of-rain-falls-in-one-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34186","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand west coast hit by heavy floods after month of rain falls in one weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rain caused slips, rivers to break their banks, and more than 2,000 residents to be evacuated<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s west coast has been hit by severe flooding, with a local state of emergency declared and thousands evacuated from their homes.<\/p>\n<p>The latest floods arrived in the aftermath of heavy rains and storms over the past two months that prompted states of emergency in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/31\/new-zealand-flooding-canterbury-state-of-emergency-evacuations-rescues\">Canterbury<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/29\/new-zealand-storm-coastal-wellington-residents-antarctic-blast-hits-weather\">Wellington<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/19\/new-zealand-west-coast-hit-by-heavy-floods-after-month-of-rain-falls-in-one-weekend\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rain caused slips, rivers to break their banks, and more than 2,000 residents to be evacuatedNew Zealand\u2019s west coast has been hit by severe flooding, with a local state of emergency declared and thousands evacuated from their homes.The latest fl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"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-34186","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\/34186","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\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34187,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34186\/revisions\/34187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}