{"id":43781,"date":"2018-06-04T03:05:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T01:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/04\/new-zealand-former-sex-worker-becomes-a-dame-in-queens-birthday-honours\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T03:05:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T01:05:37","slug":"new-zealand-former-sex-worker-becomes-a-dame-in-queens-birthday-honours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=43781","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand former sex worker becomes a dame in Queen&#039;s birthday honours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Healy, who helped decriminalise prostitution, honoured with an Order of Merit for services to the rights of sex workersWhen New Zealand police arrested Catherine Healy after raiding the Wellington brothel she worked in during the 1980s, it was impossible to imagine that one day she would be recognised by the Queen for her services to the industry. \u201cIt could have never happened in our minds,\u201d Healy told the Guardian. \u201cIt couldn\u2019t have happened in my mind even a couple of weeks ago.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jun\/04\/new-zealand-former-sex-worker-becomes-a-dame-in-queens-birthday-honours\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand former sex worker becomes a dame in Queen&#039;s birthday honours<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Healy, who helped decriminalise prostitution, honoured with an Order of Merit for services to the rights of sex workersWhen New Zealand police arrested Catherine Healy after raiding the Wellington brothel she worked in during the 1980s, it was impossible to imagine that one day she would be recognised by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}