{"id":50706,"date":"2022-11-30T09:29:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T00:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/30\/jacinda-ardern-and-sanna-marin-dismiss-suggestion-their-age-and-gender-was-reason-for-meeting"},"modified":"2022-11-30T09:29:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T00:29:22","slug":"jacinda-ardern-and-sanna-marin-dismiss-suggestion-their-age-and-gender-was-reason-for-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50706","title":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern and Sanna Marin dismiss suggestion their age and gender was reason for meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finland\u2019s PM says she met Ardern in New Zealand because they are both \u2018prime ministers\u2019 after journalist asks whether it was due to similar age and gender<\/p>\n<p>The prime ministers of Finland and New Zealand have taken a swipe at suggestions their first face-to-face meeting in New Zealand happened because they are both young female leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re meeting because we are prime ministers,\u201d Finland\u2019s Sanna Marin said at a joint press conference at Auckland\u2019s Government House on Wednesday morning, after a journalist suggested some people may have thought they were meeting because they share a similar demographic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/30\/jacinda-ardern-and-sanna-marin-dismiss-suggestion-their-age-and-gender-was-reason-for-meeting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finland\u2019s PM says she met Ardern in New Zealand because they are both \u2018prime ministers\u2019 after journalist asks whether it was due to similar age and genderThe prime ministers of Finland and New Zealand have taken a swipe at suggestions their first face-&#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":[41,848,268,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-finland","category-jacinda-ardern","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\/50706","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=50706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50707,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50706\/revisions\/50707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}