{"id":67359,"date":"2024-10-21T13:44:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T04:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/21\/new-zealand-dunedin-aiport-hug-sign-cap-3-minute"},"modified":"2024-10-21T13:44:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T04:44:23","slug":"new-zealand-airport-causes-stir-with-sign-capping-goodbye-cuddles-to-3-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67359","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand airport causes stir with sign capping goodbye cuddles to 3 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dunedin airport boss says the move is designed to keep traffic flowing in drop-off zones and enable \u2018others to have hugs\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Hugging your loved ones goodbye could land you in trouble at a <a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/newzealand\">New Zealand<\/a> airport should your embrace linger too long.<\/p>\n<p>The international airport in Dunedin, a city in the South Island, has introduced a three minute cap on cuddles, as part of a broader effort to improve safety and keep traffic flowing at its drop-off zone.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/21\/new-zealand-dunedin-aiport-hug-sign-cap-3-minute\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dunedin airport boss says the move is designed to keep traffic flowing in drop-off zones and enable \u2018others to have hugs\u2019Hugging your loved ones goodbye could land you in trouble at a New Zealand airport should your embrace linger too long.The internat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,56,527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67359","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67360,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67359\/revisions\/67360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}