{"id":42130,"date":"2022-03-03T13:59:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T04:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/03\/lots-of-happy-tears-joy-as-new-zealand-opens-border-after-two-years-of-isolation"},"modified":"2022-03-03T13:59:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T04:59:13","slug":"lots-of-happy-tears-joy-as-new-zealand-opens-border-after-two-years-of-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42130","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lots of happy tears\u2019: joy as New Zealand opens border after two years of isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some reunions were also tempered by grief, as for many New Zealanders the reopening came too late <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tears, hugs, laughter and the shouts of children echoed through the arrivals halls of New Zealand, as the country opened its borders and lifted isolation requirements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been waiting six months for this moment,\u201d says Steve, 72, who was waiting for his fiancee, Karin, to arrive from Australia. \u201cI\u2019m over the moon,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel a bit shaky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/03\/lots-of-happy-tears-joy-as-new-zealand-opens-border-after-two-years-of-isolation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some reunions were also tempered by grief, as for many New Zealanders the reopening came too late See all our coronavirus coverageTears, hugs, laughter and the shouts of children echoed through the arrivals halls of New Zealand, as the country opened i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2937,"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":[41,43,1066,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","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\/42130","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\/2937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42131,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42130\/revisions\/42131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}