{"id":52500,"date":"2023-02-10T09:37:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T00:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/10\/wellington-falling-street-lights-lamps-new-zealand"},"modified":"2023-02-10T09:37:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T00:37:26","slug":"do-look-up-1000-street-lights-at-risk-of-falling-wellington-tells-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52500","title":{"rendered":"Do look up: 1,000 street lights at risk of falling, Wellington tells residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand city council says \u2018you would be seriously injured or killed\u2019 by lamps weighing up to 15kg, like a microwave or bulk sack of rice<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s capital is being plagued by hundreds of potentially deadly street lights that have begun dropping without warning and smashing on the footpath below.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington city council spokesperson Richard MacLean said the council was aware of the problem. The lamp heads weighed up to 15kg (33lb), he said \u2013 about equivalent to a bulk sack of rice, full-grown border collie or a microwave oven. They were falling from heights of 4-6m.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/10\/wellington-falling-street-lights-lamps-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand city council says \u2018you would be seriously injured or killed\u2019 by lamps weighing up to 15kg, like a microwave or bulk sack of riceNew Zealand\u2019s capital is being plagued by hundreds of potentially deadly street lights that have begun dropping &#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":[41,56,966,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-wellington","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\/52500","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=52500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52501,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52500\/revisions\/52501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}