{"id":51181,"date":"2022-12-16T11:33:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T02:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/16\/new-zealand-set-to-cancel-jacinda-arderns-waitangi-day-bbq-amid-security-concerns"},"modified":"2022-12-16T11:33:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T02:33:38","slug":"new-zealand-set-to-cancel-jacinda-arderns-waitangi-day-bbq-amid-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51181","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand set to cancel Jacinda Ardern\u2019s Waitangi Day BBQ amid security concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual event likely won\u2019t be going ahead in 2023 amid growing concerns that radical fringe groups are transforming the country\u2019s security environment<\/p>\n<p>Jacinda Ardern\u2019s much-loved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/06\/new-zealand-celebrates-waitangi-day-with-dawn-service-bacon-butties\">Waitangi Day ritual<\/a> of hosting a barbecue breakfast for the public will likely be off the menu in 2023 due to security concerns, as New Zealand deals with increased threats and harassment of politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2018, Ardern, her family and government ministers have donned aprons and wielded tongs to cook a free barbecue for all who brave the early wake-up for a dawn service on the country\u2019s national founding holiday, at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds in Paihia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/16\/new-zealand-set-to-cancel-jacinda-arderns-waitangi-day-bbq-amid-security-concerns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual event likely won\u2019t be going ahead in 2023 amid growing concerns that radical fringe groups are transforming the country\u2019s security environmentJacinda Ardern\u2019s much-loved Waitangi Day ritual of hosting a barbecue breakfast for the public will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,268,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/51181","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51182,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51181\/revisions\/51182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}