{"id":45081,"date":"2022-06-02T01:52:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T16:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/01\/in-defence-of-new-zealands-crappiest-fountain-ever"},"modified":"2022-06-02T01:52:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T16:52:11","slug":"in-defence-of-new-zealands-crappiest-fountain-ever-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45081","title":{"rendered":"In defence of New Zealand\u2019s \u2018crappiest fountain ever\u2019 | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ainsley Dawrent<\/strong> responds to an undiplomatic comment about the bucket fountain at Cuba Mall in Wellington<\/p>\n<p>Toby Fisher\u2019s remark that the bucket fountain in Cuba Mall, Wellington, is the \u201ccrappiest fountain ever\u201d is uncalled for and, even in jest, wrong (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/30\/top-british-diplomats-husband-pokes-fun-at-new-zealands-crappiest-fountain\" title=\"\">Top British diplomat\u2019s husband pokes fun at New Zealand\u2019s \u2018crappiest fountain\u2019, 30 May<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>From 1980 to 1981, I was the Cuba Mall manager, working for its merchant association, running marketing and promotions. The bucket fountain was in a sorry state of repair, and one of my happiest achievements was having it repaired and repainted in 1981.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/01\/in-defence-of-new-zealands-crappiest-fountain-ever\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ainsley Dawrent responds to an undiplomatic comment about the bucket fountain at Cuba Mall in WellingtonToby Fisher\u2019s remark that the bucket fountain in Cuba Mall, Wellington, is the \u201ccrappiest fountain ever\u201d is uncalled for and, even in jest, wrong (T&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"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":[546,91,41,515,56,1065,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-design","category-asia-pacific","category-design","category-new-zealand","category-sculpture","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45081","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\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45082,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45081\/revisions\/45082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}