{"id":8250,"date":"2019-08-31T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T23:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/31\/babies-in-the-beehive-the-man-behind-new-zealands-child-friendly-parliament"},"modified":"2019-08-31T08:00:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T23:00:29","slug":"babies-in-the-beehive-the-man-behind-new-zealands-child-friendly-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8250","title":{"rendered":"Babies in the Beehive: the man behind New Zealand&#8217;s child-friendly parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From bottle feeding infants in the chamber to a playground on the front lawn, speaker Trevor Mallard has welcomed infants into the corridors of power <\/p>\n<p>Trevor Mallard thought his days nursing babies might be over when he became speaker of New Zealand\u2019s parliament in late 2017.<\/p>\n<p>But the grandfather who has raised three children of his own has overseen a baby boom in the Beehive \u2013 as the main parliamentary building is known \u2013 and has become determined to make life easier for parents in the country\u2019s halls of power.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/31\/babies-in-the-beehive-the-man-behind-new-zealands-child-friendly-parliament\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From bottle feeding infants in the chamber to a playground on the front lawn, speaker Trevor Mallard has welcomed infants into the corridors of power Trevor Mallard thought his days nursing babies might be over when he became speaker of New Zealand\u2019s p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"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":[41,245,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-children","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\/8250","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\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8274,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions\/8274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}