{"id":51613,"date":"2023-01-03T14:04:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T05:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/03\/burned-the-hill-down-billionaires-runaway-fireworks-spark-new-zealand-furore"},"modified":"2023-01-03T14:04:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T05:04:05","slug":"burned-the-hill-down-billionaires-runaway-fireworks-spark-new-zealand-furore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51613","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Burned the hill down\u2019: billionaire\u2019s runaway fireworks spark New Zealand furore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neighbours furious after firefighters had to be called to Redemption Song, owned by Empire State Building magnate Tony Malkin<\/p>\n<p>Residents of a New Zealand town are calling for a ban on private fireworks after a display by a New York billionaire set off a blaze on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n<p>Ten minutes into the new year, firefighters were called to fight multiple grass fires at the property of Tony Malkin \u2013 chief executive of the entity that owns the Empire State Building \u2013 after an extravagant private fireworks display went awry near Queenstown in Central Otago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/03\/burned-the-hill-down-billionaires-runaway-fireworks-spark-new-zealand-furore\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neighbours furious after firefighters had to be called to Redemption Song, owned by Empire State Building magnate Tony MalkinResidents of a New Zealand town are calling for a ban on private fireworks after a display by a New York billionaire set off a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3509,"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":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/51613","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\/3509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51614,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51613\/revisions\/51614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}