{"id":72551,"date":"2025-06-21T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T22:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/21\/turning-into-a-little-finland-chilly-new-zealand-gets-the-hots-for-beachside-saunas"},"modified":"2025-06-21T07:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T22:00:52","slug":"turning-into-a-little-finland-chilly-new-zealand-gets-the-hots-for-beachside-saunas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72551","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Turning into a little Finland\u2019: chilly New Zealand gets the hots for beachside saunas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once confined to upmarket spas and grimy gyms, saunas are popping up across the country<\/p>\n<p>On a clear winter morning on the coast of New Zealand\u2019s capital, a procession of steaming bodies emerge from a small shed-like building to throw themselves into the frigid sea.<\/p>\n<p>Dripping wet, they return to sit in its 100 degree heat and wait for their skin to gather a patina of sweat before bolting back to the cool waters. Back and forth between the extreme temperatures they go, until an hour later they depart dreamy-eyed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/21\/turning-into-a-little-finland-chilly-new-zealand-gets-the-hots-for-beachside-saunas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once confined to upmarket spas and grimy gyms, saunas are popping up across the countryOn a clear winter morning on the coast of New Zealand\u2019s capital, a procession of steaming bodies emerge from a small shed-like building to throw themselves into the &#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":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","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\/72551","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=72551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72552,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72551\/revisions\/72552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}