{"id":42181,"date":"2022-03-05T03:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/05\/the-hidden-lives-of-new-zealands-takeout-kids"},"modified":"2022-03-05T03:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T18:00:01","slug":"the-hidden-lives-of-new-zealands-takeout-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42181","title":{"rendered":"The hidden lives of New Zealand\u2019s \u2018takeout kids\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new documentary explores a common experience of many immigrant children \u2013 working at the family\u2019s takeway shop<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe customers teach me about life. Working teaches me about life. Basically, everything here at the restaurant is life,\u201d says Rama Bani Khalid, a charismatic, curly-haired 12-year-old. Rama is a takeout kid: one of many New Zealand children who work in the country\u2019s innumerable takeaway and fast food joints. There, she mans the phones and till, hustles for tips and tops up the water bottles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a waiter and I help out a lot,\u201d says Rama, who spends much of her days in her family\u2019s Jordanian restaurant, Petra Shawarma, in Auckland. \u201cI think I know pretty much everyone on the street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/05\/the-hidden-lives-of-new-zealands-takeout-kids\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new documentary explores a common experience of many immigrant children \u2013 working at the family\u2019s takeway shop\u201cThe customers teach me about life. Working teaches me about life. Basically, everything here at the restaurant is life,\u201d says Rama Bani Kha&#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":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/42181","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=42181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42182,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42181\/revisions\/42182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}