{"id":75698,"date":"2025-12-22T11:28:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/22\/new-zealand-christchurch-spoof-absurdist-road-signs"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:28:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:28:46","slug":"slightly-haunted-but-manageable-new-signs-cause-confusion-and-delight-in-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75698","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Slightly haunted but manageable\u2019: new signs cause confusion \u2013 and delight \u2013 in Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six absurdist signs resembling official city council information boards have popped up across New Zealand\u2019s second-largest city<\/p>\n<p>Outside an abandoned building in New Zealand\u2019s second-biggest city, a sign reads \u201cslightly haunted but manageable\u201d. In the middle of a busy shopping strip, pedestrians are warned to keep to a 2.83km\/h walking speed. In another part of the Christchurch, one piece of signage declares simply \u201cdon\u2019t\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The baffling boards are not an overzealous new council initiative, but a piece of art designed to \u201cplay with the way we take authority and signage so seriously\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/22\/new-zealand-christchurch-spoof-absurdist-road-signs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six absurdist signs resembling official city council information boards have popped up across New Zealand\u2019s second-largest cityOutside an abandoned building in New Zealand\u2019s second-biggest city, a sign reads \u201cslightly haunted but manageable\u201d. In the mi&#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-75698","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\/75698","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=75698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75710,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75698\/revisions\/75710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}