{"id":4904,"date":"2017-09-02T03:07:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T01:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/02\/jacindamania-rocketing-rise-of-new-zealand-labours-fresh-political-hope\/"},"modified":"2017-09-02T03:07:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T01:07:41","slug":"jacindamania-rocketing-rise-of-new-zealand-labours-fresh-political-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=4904","title":{"rendered":"Jacindamania: rocketing rise of New Zealand Labour&#039;s fresh political hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In just over a month, party\u2019s youthful, confident new leader has transformed its moribund poll position and put it in serious contention to win the electionThere\u2019s no doubt Jacinda Ardern taking over as leader is the best thing that has happened to New Zealand Labour in a long time, with its polling surging by 19 points in just a month as the phenomenon dubbed \u201cJacindamania\u201d grips the country. There are the T-shirts, the tote bags with her face plastered on them, the \u201cLet\u2019s do this\u201d slogan, and the memes flying around social media \u2013 but underlying all this is a serious groundswell of support.Ardern, 37, the youngest person to lead the party, has taken a crash course in leadership and passed, so far, with flying colours. Just seven and a half weeks out from the 23 September general election, Andrew Little resigned as Labour leader after its lowest ever poll result of just 24 points. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/sep\/02\/jacindamania-rocketing-rise-of-new-zealand-labours-fresh-political-hope\" target=\"_blank\">Jacindamania: rocketing rise of New Zealand Labour&#039;s fresh political hope<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just over a month, party\u2019s youthful, confident new leader has transformed its moribund poll position and put it in serious contention to win the electionThere\u2019s no doubt Jacinda Ardern taking over as leader is the best thing that has happened to New Zealand Labour in a long time, with [&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-4904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904","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=4904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}