{"id":43120,"date":"2022-04-01T09:36:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T00:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/01\/cannabis-sprouts-in-new-zealand-parliament-garden-in-protesters-parting-pot-shot"},"modified":"2022-04-01T09:36:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T00:36:39","slug":"cannabis-sprouts-in-new-zealand-parliament-garden-in-protesters-parting-pot-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43120","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis sprouts in New Zealand parliament garden in protesters\u2019 parting pot-shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seedlings, apparently planted by anti-Covid mandate protesters, have been removed after speaker asked for \u2018weed to be weeded\u2019<\/p>\n<p>After a weeks-long illegal occupation that ended in a riot, New Zealand\u2019s parliament has a new unwelcome visitor to contend with: cannabis seedlings popping up among its rose gardens.<\/p>\n<p>An eagle-eyed Wellingtonian spotted the tiny green leaves emerging from the soil this week and posted his find to social media. The man wished to remain anonymous, but a parliament groundskeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/464385\/cannabis-seedlings-weeded-out-of-parliament-grounds\">confirmed to the national broadcaster, RNZ<\/a>, that the plants were indeed \u201ca few cannabis seedlings\u201d thought to be left by the protesters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/01\/cannabis-sprouts-in-new-zealand-parliament-garden-in-protesters-parting-pot-shot\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seedlings, apparently planted by anti-Covid mandate protesters, have been removed after speaker asked for \u2018weed to be weeded\u2019After a weeks-long illegal occupation that ended in a riot, New Zealand\u2019s parliament has a new unwelcome visitor to contend wit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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-43120","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\/43120","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43121,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43120\/revisions\/43121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}