{"id":37102,"date":"2021-09-21T08:59:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T23:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/21\/new-zealand-police-arrest-pair-trying-to-enter-auckland-with-large-amount-of-kfc"},"modified":"2021-09-21T08:59:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T23:59:29","slug":"new-zealand-police-arrest-pair-trying-to-enter-auckland-with-large-amount-of-kfc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37102","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand police arrest pair trying to enter Auckland with \u2018large amount\u2019 of KFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men tried to reach city \u2013 where Covid restrictions banned takeaways \u2013 with $100,000, three buckets of chicken and an undisclosed quantity of fries, police say<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two men have been arrested after police said they found them with a car boot-full of Kentucky fried chicken and over $100,000 in cash as they tried to cross the border into Auckland despite New Zealand\u2019s strict Covid-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>The men were arrested after allegedly trying to flee from police near the Auckland border. When their car was searched, police said they found a large quantity of KFC, as well as the cash and a number of empty ounce bags.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/21\/new-zealand-police-arrest-pair-trying-to-enter-auckland-with-large-amount-of-kfc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men tried to reach city \u2013 where Covid restrictions banned takeaways \u2013 with $100,000, three buckets of chicken and an undisclosed quantity of fries, police saySee all our coronavirus coverageTwo men have been arrested after police said they found th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2188,"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":[41,1066,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37102","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\/2188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37103,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37102\/revisions\/37103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}