{"id":1362,"date":"2015-09-11T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2023-08-29T21:21:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T11:21:56","slug":"flurry-in-new-zealand-flag-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1362","title":{"rendered":"Flurry in New Zealand Flag Referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After forty designs were\u00a0reduced to four\u00a0for the first referendum, there is a little ruffle in paradise\u00a0after a negative response to the choices and\u00a0with pressure mounting for a\u00a0popular\u00a0fifth design &#8211; not\u00a0featuring a fern &#8211;\u00a0to be included,\u00a0as well as a\u00a0campaign to boycott the referendum altogether.\u00a0There has been no response from the New Zealand Government as yet but we already see some signs of the\u00a0continuing\u00a0issues with referendums and popular votes to add more options\u00a0and\/or split the vote.\u00a0For WfaAR&#8217;s part, we were surprised that all the\u00a0designs chosen by the\u00a0panel\u00a0featured either\u00a0black, white, blue or red and not one of the striking\u00a0green\/teal designs\u00a0made the shortlist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After forty designs were\u00a0reduced to four\u00a0for the first referendum, there is a little ruffle in paradise\u00a0after a negative response to the choices and\u00a0with pressure mounting for a\u00a0popular\u00a0fifth design &#8211; not\u00a0featuring a fern &#8211;\u00a0to be included,\u00a0as well as a\u00a0campaign to boycott&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-17","wpcat-17-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}