{"id":39440,"date":"2021-12-03T11:02:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T02:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/03\/electric-vibe-auckland-celebrates-end-of-lockdown-with-brunch-and-traffic-gridlock"},"modified":"2021-12-03T11:02:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T02:02:33","slug":"electric-vibe-auckland-celebrates-end-of-lockdown-with-brunch-and-traffic-gridlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39440","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Electric vibe\u2019: Auckland celebrates end of lockdown with brunch and traffic gridlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccinated people in New Zealand\u2019s largest city can now go to the pub for the first time in over 100 days<\/p>\n<p>In Auckland, nature was healing. The ungroomed lined up for their eyebrow appointments. Bars flung open their doors with the promise of free drinks. Locals posted photos of their flat whites and brunch menus. The city\u2019s sky tower was lit up for the first day of the \u201ctraffic light\u201d reopening. And, in perhaps the truest sign that the gridlock-plagued city was on its pathway to normalcy, four lanes of the southern motorway were bumper to bumper.<\/p>\n<p>The traffic light system, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/22\/new-zealand-set-to-ease-covid-restrictions-and-end-lockdowns-from-december\">announced by prime minister Jacinda Ardern<\/a> in late November, ends lockdowns in favour of restrictions on the unvaccinated. The red, orange and green levels depend on vaccination rates and the level of strain on the health system, but even at red \u2013 the strictest level \u2013 businesses are fully open to the vaccinated, with some restrictions on gathering size.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/03\/electric-vibe-auckland-celebrates-end-of-lockdown-with-brunch-and-traffic-gridlock\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccinated people in New Zealand\u2019s largest city can now go to the pub for the first time in over 100 daysIn Auckland, nature was healing. The ungroomed lined up for their eyebrow appointments. Bars flung open their doors with the promise of free drinks&#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":[41,1066,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39440","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\/39440","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=39440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39441,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39440\/revisions\/39441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}