{"id":52097,"date":"2023-01-23T14:52:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T05:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/23\/who-is-carmel-sepuloni-new-zealand-first-pasifika-pacific-deputy-pm-prime-minister"},"modified":"2023-01-23T14:52:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T05:52:01","slug":"who-is-carmel-sepuloni-new-zealands-first-pasifika-deputy-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52097","title":{"rendered":"Who is Carmel Sepuloni? New Zealand\u2019s first Pasifika deputy prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The daughter of an abattoir worker and fruit picker, Sepuloni could have exactly the expertise the PM needs to tackle a brutal cost of living crisis<\/p>\n<p>Carmel Sepuloni admits her father, who arrived from Samoa in 1964 unable to speak English, had difficulty taking in the news that his daughter was shortly to become New Zealand\u2019s first Pasifika deputy prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo think that he could come here to work on the railways and the freezing works [abattoir] and marry a sheep farmer\u2019s daughter and have a daughter who would become the deputy prime minister of New Zealand is very difficult to comprehend,\u201d Sepuloni said. \u201cBut as you can imagine, [he\u2019s] very proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/23\/who-is-carmel-sepuloni-new-zealand-first-pasifika-pacific-deputy-pm-prime-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The daughter of an abattoir worker and fruit picker, Sepuloni could have exactly the expertise the PM needs to tackle a brutal cost of living crisisCarmel Sepuloni admits her father, who arrived from Samoa in 1964 unable to speak English, had difficult&#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":[41,1054,56,933,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-labour-party","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-pacific-islands"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52097","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=52097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52098,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52097\/revisions\/52098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}