{"id":53309,"date":"2023-03-11T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/11\/cyclone-aftermath-offers-popularity-boost-to-new-new-zealand-pm-chris-hipkins-as-poll-looms"},"modified":"2023-03-11T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T19:00:09","slug":"cyclone-aftermath-offers-popularity-boost-to-new-new-zealand-pm-chris-hipkins-as-poll-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53309","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone aftermath offers popularity boost to new New Zealand PM Chris Hipkins as poll looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disaster has given opportunity to show decisive leadership but issues raised by climate change could be a political landmine<\/p>\n<p>On the lawn of a suburban home in Coromandel, the prime minister\u2019s dress shoes have been scuffed ochre by a softened bed of clay. Chris Hipkins stands in front of the house, perched atop a tide of packed earth. It has been carried about 15 metres downhill by a landslide, walls crunched and bowing. The buckled porch has come to rest halfway across the lawn, flattening a well-tended hibiscus shrub.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a long journey ahead of us,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/11\/cyclone-aftermath-offers-popularity-boost-to-new-new-zealand-pm-chris-hipkins-as-poll-looms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disaster has given opportunity to show decisive leadership but issues raised by climate change could be a political landmineOn the lawn of a suburban home in Coromandel, the prime minister\u2019s dress shoes have been scuffed ochre by a softened bed of clay&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3628,"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":[41,2832,2852,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-chris-hipkins","category-cyclone-gabrielle","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","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\/53309","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\/3628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53310,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53309\/revisions\/53310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}