{"id":37528,"date":"2021-10-01T13:19:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T04:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/01\/png-admits-maserati-purchase-was-terrible-mistake-as-they-go-on-sale-at-discounted-price"},"modified":"2021-10-01T13:19:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T04:19:13","slug":"png-admits-maserati-purchase-was-terrible-mistake-as-they-go-on-sale-at-discounted-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37528","title":{"rendered":"PNG admits Maserati purchase was \u2018terrible mistake\u2019 as they go on sale at discounted price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fleet of luxury cars, purchased for the 2018 Apec summit in a move that prompted widespread outrage, has been put up for sale<\/p>\n<p>A fleet of Maserati cars, bought by the Papua New Guinean government for the 2018 Apec leaders\u2019 summit in a move that prompted widespread outrage, has been put up for discounted sale.<\/p>\n<p>Finance minister, John Pundari, admitted the purchase of the luxury vehicles was a \u201cterrible mistake\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/postcourier.com.pg\/we-made-a-terrible-mistake-says-sir-john\/\">according to the Post Courier<\/a>, as he announced the vehicles will be put on the market for a discount price of K400,000 (AU$158,000).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/01\/png-admits-maserati-purchase-was-terrible-mistake-as-they-go-on-sale-at-discounted-price\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fleet of luxury cars, purchased for the 2018 Apec summit in a move that prompted widespread outrage, has been put up for saleA fleet of Maserati cars, bought by the Papua New Guinean government for the 2018 Apec leaders\u2019 summit in a move that prompted &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1366,"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":[41,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","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\/37528","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\/1366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37529,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37528\/revisions\/37529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}