{"id":54863,"date":"2000-11-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-11-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/965c6907-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2000-11-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-11-27T00:00:00","slug":"965c6917-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/965c6917-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Speight lawyer slips past NZ immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suva (FM96\/PINA Nius Online) &#8211; A lawyer for George Speight is believed to have slipped into New Zealand on a taxpayer funded aid program, making a mockery of the country&#8217;s sanctions against Fiji.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff was quoted in the New Zealand Herald that the man should not have been issued a three-month visa when he arrived for a serious surgery but not an emergency. The man is allegedly black listed in New Zealand as part of New Zealand&#8217;s so-called smart sanctions following the May 19 coup.<\/p>\n<p>His presence in New Zealand has infuriated Fiji democracy campaigners in Auckland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lawyer for George Speight is believed to have slipped into New Zealand on a taxpayer funded aid program, making a mockery of the country&#8217;s sanctions against Fiji.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}