{"id":51108,"date":"2022-12-13T12:53:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T03:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/13\/jacinda-arden-caught-on-hot-mic-calling-minor-opposition-party-leader-an-arrogant-prick"},"modified":"2022-12-13T12:53:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T03:53:25","slug":"jacinda-ardern-caught-on-hot-mic-calling-minor-opposition-party-leader-an-arrogant-prick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51108","title":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern caught on hot mic calling minor opposition party leader an \u2018arrogant prick\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand PM apologised for comment made live on parliament television during question time<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has become the latest leader to fall victim to a hot microphone, after her comment that the leader of a minor opposition party was an \u201carrogant prick\u201d was picked up and broadcast on parliament television.<\/p>\n<p>During question time in the house on Tuesday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/08\/acts-david-seymour-i-dont-really-care-what-people-think-and-im-still-quite-successful\">leader of the libertarian Act party, David Seymour<\/a>, asked Ardern if she could \u201cgive an example of her making a mistake, apologising for it properly, and fixing it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/13\/jacinda-arden-caught-on-hot-mic-calling-minor-opposition-party-leader-an-arrogant-prick\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand PM apologised for comment made live on parliament television during question timeNew Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has become the latest leader to fall victim to a hot microphone, after her comment that the leader of a minor opposit&#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":[41,268,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","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\/51108","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=51108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51109,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51108\/revisions\/51109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}