{"id":44984,"date":"2022-05-30T09:51:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T00:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/30\/top-british-diplomats-husband-pokes-fun-at-new-zealands-crappiest-fountain"},"modified":"2022-05-30T09:51:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T00:51:42","slug":"top-british-diplomats-husband-pokes-fun-at-new-zealands-crappiest-fountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44984","title":{"rendered":"Top British diplomat\u2019s husband pokes fun at New Zealand\u2019s \u2018crappiest fountain\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet about Wellington water feature drew light-hearted responses from MPs and the public, with one saying: \u2018There\u2019s a fine line between iconic and crap\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The husband of New Zealand\u2019s British high commissioner has announced his loathing of the Wellington bucket fountain, a well-known and polarising water feature that graces the centre of the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Toby Fisher, husband of British commissioner Laura Clarke, tweeted: \u201cAfter 4 years in Wellington, it\u2019s time to be straight with you all, this is the crappiest fountain ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/30\/top-british-diplomats-husband-pokes-fun-at-new-zealands-crappiest-fountain\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet about Wellington water feature drew light-hearted responses from MPs and the public, with one saying: \u2018There\u2019s a fine line between iconic and crap\u2019The husband of New Zealand\u2019s British high commissioner has announced his loathing of the Wellington&#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":[41,56,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-uk-news","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\/44984","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=44984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44985,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44984\/revisions\/44985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}