{"id":49683,"date":"2022-10-27T08:53:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T23:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/27\/new-zealand-influencers-detained-in-iran-extremely-relieved-to-be-home"},"modified":"2022-10-27T08:53:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T23:53:42","slug":"new-zealand-influencers-detained-in-iran-extremely-relieved-to-be-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49683","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand influencers detained in Iran \u2018extremely relieved\u2019 to be home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ government facing accusations that its response to Iran protests has been muted in order to secure release of pair<\/p>\n<p>Two New Zealand influencers who were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/25\/new-zealand-couple-detained-in-iran-for-months-leave-the-country\">detained for nearly four months in Iran<\/a> have said they are \u201cextremely relieved\u201d to be out of the country and back with family.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher \u201cTopher\u201d Richwhite and Bridget Thackwray were on a trip they called Expedition Earth; driving a Jeep through 70 countries to \u201cpromote environmental issues\u201d and documenting their travels on Instagram. They disappeared in early July, shortly after they were questioned by authorities upon entering Iran. The pair are understood to have been kept in the country by security forces.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/27\/new-zealand-influencers-detained-in-iran-extremely-relieved-to-be-home\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NZ government facing accusations that its response to Iran protests has been muted in order to secure release of pairTwo New Zealand influencers who were detained for nearly four months in Iran have said they are \u201cextremely relieved\u201d to be out of the c&#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":[41,448,212,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","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\/49683","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=49683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49684,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49683\/revisions\/49684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}