{"id":38238,"date":"2021-10-22T10:30:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T01:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/oct\/22\/aucklands-lockdown-has-finally-given-me-what-i-always-wanted-a-licence-to-pry"},"modified":"2021-10-22T10:30:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T01:30:05","slug":"aucklands-lockdown-has-finally-given-me-what-i-always-wanted-a-licence-to-pry-leni-maiai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38238","title":{"rendered":"Auckland\u2019s lockdown has finally given me what I always wanted \u2013 a licence to pry | Leni Ma&#8217;ia&#8217;i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m one of the city\u2019s many undercover agents, ready to pounce on any and all lockdown infringements<\/p>\n<p>Nine weeks into T\u0101maki Makaurau\u2019s lockdown, having pushed the limits on baking, introspection and backgammon, I\u2019ve taken to running.<\/p>\n<p>No, not for any of the health benefits \u2013 running at my size can\u2019t be healthy; it\u2019s a chance to go snooping. I\u2019ve always enjoyed sticking my nose in other people\u2019s business, but society has repressed these urges. Lockdown, finally, has given me the licence to pry.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/oct\/22\/aucklands-lockdown-has-finally-given-me-what-i-always-wanted-a-licence-to-pry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m one of the city\u2019s many undercover agents, ready to pounce on any and all lockdown infringementsNine weeks into T\u0101maki Makaurau\u2019s lockdown, having pushed the limits on baking, introspection and backgammon, I\u2019ve taken to running.No, not for any of th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2154,"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-38238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","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\/38238","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\/2154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38239,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38238\/revisions\/38239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}