{"id":59372,"date":"2023-10-24T11:20:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T02:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/24\/porirua-siren-kings-new-zealand-city-speaker-battles"},"modified":"2023-10-24T11:20:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T02:20:52","slug":"siren-kings-new-zealand-city-terrorised-by-celine-dion-speaker-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59372","title":{"rendered":"Siren kings: New Zealand city terrorised by C\u00e9line Dion \u2018speaker battles\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cars covered with loudspeakers blasting remixes of singer\u2019s ballads angers residents of Porirua<\/p>\n<p>A small city in New Zealand plagued by \u201csiren battles\u201d \u2013 cars decked out in loudspeakers commonly used in emergency warning systems and often blaring C\u00e9line Dion hits \u2013 is calling on authorities to step in and end the noise.<\/p>\n<p>The battles are part of a New Zealand subculture where music enthusiasts cover their cars in up to dozens of industrial speakers, loudhailers and sirens, then compete to have the loudest and clearest sounds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/24\/porirua-siren-kings-new-zealand-city-speaker-battles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cars covered with loudspeakers blasting remixes of singer\u2019s ballads angers residents of PoriruaA small city in New Zealand plagued by \u201csiren battles\u201d \u2013 cars decked out in loudspeakers commonly used in emergency warning systems and often blaring C\u00e9line &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3833,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59372","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\/3833"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59388,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59372\/revisions\/59388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}