{"id":183777,"date":"2022-12-13T16:14:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T13:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=183777"},"modified":"2022-12-13T16:14:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T13:14:04","slug":"jacinda-ardern-caught-on-hot-mic-calling-minor-opposition-party-leader-an-arrogant-prick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/jacinda-ardern-caught-on-hot-mic-calling-minor-opposition-party-leader-an-arrogant-prick\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern caught on hot mic calling minor opposition party leader an \u2018arrogant prick\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-183778\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3000-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3000-scaled.jpeg 2560w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3000-300x200.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3000-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3000-768x512.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3000-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3000-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3000-696x464.jpeg 696w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3000-1068x712.jpeg 1068w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/3000-630x420.jpeg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand&#8217;s prime minister has been caught calling a rival politician an &#8220;arrogant prick&#8221; during a parliamentary debate.<\/p>\n<p>Labour&#8217;s Jacinda Ardern made the comment as she returned to her seat following a series of questions from libertarian ACT leader David Seymour.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a hot microphone, the vulgarity was picked up in parliament and entered into the official transcript of the debate.<\/p>\n<p>The name-calling incident was also broadcast on Parliament TV, but missed by most MPs as house speaker Adrian Rurawhe started talking at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Ardern&#8217;s office said she apologised to Mr Seymour for the remark.<br \/>\nThe transcript details that Mr Seymour asked: &#8220;Can the prime minister give an example of her making a mistake, apologising for it properly, and fixing it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To which Ms Ardern replied: &#8220;There&#8217;s been a number of occasions where we acknowledge that we will not have perfect responses\u2026<br \/>\n&#8220;But I stand by the work that we&#8217;ve done as a government over this last year and over this past term-we&#8217;ve always made decisions that we believe to be in the best interests of New Zealand at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand&#8217;s prime minister has been caught calling a rival politician an &#8220;arrogant prick&#8221; during a parliamentary debate. Labour&#8217;s Jacinda Ardern made the comment as she returned to her seat following a series of questions from libertarian ACT leader David Seymour. Thanks to a hot microphone, the vulgarity was picked up in parliament and entered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183777"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183779,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183777\/revisions\/183779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}