{"id":38457,"date":"2021-10-29T08:47:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T23:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/29\/auckland-closed-to-the-world-by-covid-tops-lonely-planets-list-of-best-cities-to-visit"},"modified":"2021-10-29T08:47:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T23:47:22","slug":"auckland-closed-to-the-world-by-covid-tops-lonely-planets-list-of-best-cities-to-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38457","title":{"rendered":"Auckland, closed to the world by Covid, tops Lonely Planet\u2019s list of best cities to visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealanders react with amusement at travel guide\u2019s optimistic ranking for 2022<\/p>\n<p>In further evidence that we all want what we cannot have, Auckland has taken out the top spot in Lonely Planet\u2019s \u201cbest cities to visit\u201d rankings \u2013 despite currently being in lockdown, the centre of a Covid outbreak, and off-limits to both the rest of the country and the world.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement generated some amusement in New Zealand, given anyone who now attempts to visit the locked-down city risks being slapped with a hefty fine or prison term. \u201cIt is kind of a lonely planet in lockdown level 3,\u201d one resident wrote on social media. \u201cProbably means the rest of the world is in a really bad place,\u201d responded another.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/29\/auckland-closed-to-the-world-by-covid-tops-lonely-planets-list-of-best-cities-to-visit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealanders react with amusement at travel guide\u2019s optimistic ranking for 2022In further evidence that we all want what we cannot have, Auckland has taken out the top spot in Lonely Planet\u2019s \u201cbest cities to visit\u201d rankings \u2013 despite currently being &#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":[41,858,56,527,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-auckland","category-new-zealand","category-travel","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\/38457","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=38457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38458,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38457\/revisions\/38458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}