{"id":43382,"date":"2022-04-09T06:21:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T21:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/09\/here-be-trolls-new-zealands-female-politicians-battle-rising-tide-of-misogyny"},"modified":"2022-04-09T06:21:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T21:21:17","slug":"here-be-trolls-new-zealands-female-politicians-battle-rising-tide-of-misogyny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43382","title":{"rendered":"Here be trolls: New Zealand\u2019s female politicians battle rising tide of misogyny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Led by Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand women are entering uncharted territory in politics \u2013 and encountering increasing levels of abuse<\/p>\n<p>In January 2020, a New Zealand man sent two emails to prime minister Jacinda Ardern: one threatening to \u201cpersonally wipe [her] off this fucking planet\u201d and another saying he would blow her head off. It was the violent culmination of 88 lengthy emails sent over a four month period to government officials in which he referred to them as criminals and terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the man, Michael Cruickshank, 56, was unapologetic as he was sentenced to one year in prison for threatening to kill the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/09\/here-be-trolls-new-zealands-female-politicians-battle-rising-tide-of-misogyny\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Led by Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand women are entering uncharted territory in politics \u2013 and encountering increasing levels of abuseIn January 2020, a New Zealand man sent two emails to prime minister Jacinda Ardern: one threatening to \u201cpersonally wipe &#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":[41,268,56,933,79,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-society","category-women","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\/43382","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=43382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43383,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43382\/revisions\/43383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}