{"id":52140,"date":"2023-01-25T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/25\/jacinda-ardern-last-day-new-zealand-prime-minister-selfies-sendoffs-star-power"},"modified":"2023-01-25T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T03:00:07","slug":"selfies-sendoffs-and-star-power-as-jacinda-ardern-has-her-last-day-in-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52140","title":{"rendered":"Selfies, sendoffs and star power as Jacinda Ardern has her last day in the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand is still deciding what her political legacy will look like, but the crowds at her last engagement gave the sense of the end of an era<\/p>\n<p>From the moment of her arrival, Jacinda Ardern is surrounded by a crush of people: hundreds gather to ask for final selfies, record video messages for friends and relatives, or simply watch her pass by. A group of running children weaves through bystanders\u2019 legs, pushing for a better view.<\/p>\n<p>Over and over, she obliges, smiling for cameraphones, asking people\u2019s names and jobs, cracking jokes, signing a worn blue and yellow basketball for a boy who pushes through the crowd.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/25\/jacinda-ardern-last-day-new-zealand-prime-minister-selfies-sendoffs-star-power\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand is still deciding what her political legacy will look like, but the crowds at her last engagement gave the sense of the end of an eraFrom the moment of her arrival, Jacinda Ardern is surrounded by a crush of people: hundreds gather to ask f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3538,"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":[41,2832,268,1054,56,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-chris-hipkins","category-jacinda-ardern","category-labour-party","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52140","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\/3538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52141,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52140\/revisions\/52141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}