{"id":41620,"date":"2022-02-12T03:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/11\/what-would-your-mother-say-new-zealand-urges-citizens-to-wind-back-online-rage"},"modified":"2022-02-12T03:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T18:00:31","slug":"what-would-your-mother-say-new-zealand-urges-citizens-to-wind-back-online-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41620","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What would your mother say?\u2019 New Zealand urges citizens to wind back online rage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say pandemic pressures have contributed to a huge increase in abuse and antisocial behaviour<\/p>\n<p>Faced with a rising tide of acrimony, rage, and online crankiness, New Zealand has launched a nationwide campaign to try to calm its citizenry down.<\/p>\n<p>Over the summer, pastel posters began cropping up around the cities, asking New Zealanders to \u201cdial it down a notch,\u201d \u201cread it before you hit enter,\u201d and \u201ccomment with dignity\u201d. Cartoon characters entreat keyboard warriors to take a breath, and consider \u201cwhat would your mother say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/11\/what-would-your-mother-say-new-zealand-urges-citizens-to-wind-back-online-rage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say pandemic pressures have contributed to a huge increase in abuse and antisocial behaviourFaced with a rising tide of acrimony, rage, and online crankiness, New Zealand has launched a nationwide campaign to try to calm its citizenry down.Over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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-41620","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\/41620","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41621,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41620\/revisions\/41621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}