{"id":48993,"date":"2022-10-02T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/01\/hope-and-heartbreak-for-new-zealanders-dreaming-of-a-communal-life"},"modified":"2022-10-02T03:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T18:00:15","slug":"hope-and-heartbreak-for-new-zealanders-dreaming-of-a-communal-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48993","title":{"rendered":"Hope and heartbreak for New Zealanders dreaming of a communal life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cohousing offers a vision of connected, community-based living \u2013 but the path to realising the dream can be far from smooth <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelcome to the site of hope and heartbreak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With these words Bronwen Newton greets visitors to a quarter-acre gravel carpark between two industrial buildings in New Zealand\u2019s capital, Wellington. Still visible are the foundations of a sheet-metal workshop that once stood there; not visible is the cohousing project that Newton and 23 other families hoped to build, but now never will.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/01\/hope-and-heartbreak-for-new-zealanders-dreaming-of-a-communal-life\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cohousing offers a vision of connected, community-based living \u2013 but the path to realising the dream can be far from smooth \u201cWelcome to the site of hope and heartbreak.\u201dWith these words Bronwen Newton greets visitors to a quarter-acre gravel carpark be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"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":[41,1068,697,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-communities","category-housing","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48993","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\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48994,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48993\/revisions\/48994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}