{"id":10157,"date":"2014-04-07T11:39:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T11:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/?p=10157"},"modified":"2014-04-15T13:29:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T13:29:12","slug":"nzs-colonial-flag-to-be-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/2014\/04\/nzs-colonial-flag-to-be-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ&#8217;s &#8216;colonial&#8217; flag to be reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">New Zealanders are to vote on a change of flag before the 2017 elections. Prime Minister John Key said that he believed the current flag symbolised &#8220;a colonial era that has passed&#8221;. He added: &#8220;We want a design that says &#8216;New Zealand&#8217;, whether it&#8217;s stitched on a Kiwi traveller&#8217;s backpack outside a bar in Croatia, [or] on a flagpole outside the United Nations.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Labour leader David Cunliffe has given his support to the referendum.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealanders are to vote on a change of flag before the 2017 elections. Prime Minister John Key said that he believed the current flag symbolised &#8220;a colonial era that has passed&#8221;. He added: &#8220;We want a design that says &#8216;New Zealand&#8217;, whether it&#8217;s stitched on a Kiwi traveller&#8217;s backpack outside a bar in Croatia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[175,103,42,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10159,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157\/revisions\/10159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}