{"id":30899,"date":"2020-10-16T19:18:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T00:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=30899"},"modified":"2020-10-16T19:18:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T00:18:36","slug":"an-island-of-sanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/16\/an-island-of-sanity\/","title":{"rendered":"An Island Of Sanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to <em>Kiwis<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A coronavirus sceptic who confronted New Zealand\u2019s deputy leader on the campaign trail was met with a blunt response when the lawmaker called him a flat-Earther.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters was taking questions from a crowd at an election event in Tauranga this week when he was asked to prove that Covid-19 existed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got someone who obviously got an education in America,\u201d Peters said, referring to the man\u2019s apparent North American accent.<\/p>\n<p>Peters continued by citing the mounting U.S. death toll from the virus \u2014 over 215,000 \u2014 and the rising case numbers around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd here is someone who gets up and says:\u2019the Earth is flat\u2019,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry sunshine, wrong place.\u201d<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/kiwi-deputy-pm-brings-virus-hoax-advocate-down-to-flat-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Courthouse News Service<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Outside of the occasional earthquake, New Zealand continues to sound closer and closer to heaven on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to Kiwis: A coronavirus sceptic who confronted New Zealand\u2019s deputy leader on the campaign trail was met with a blunt response when the lawmaker called him a flat-Earther. Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters was taking questions from a crowd at an election event in Tauranga this week when he \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/16\/an-island-of-sanity\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30900,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30899\/revisions\/30900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}