{"id":24710,"date":"2011-02-23T16:10:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T16:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christchurch_left_devastated_on_new_zealands_darkest_day\/"},"modified":"2011-02-23T16:10:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T16:10:43","slug":"christchurch_left_devastated_on_new_zealands_darkest_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24710","title":{"rendered":"(Independent) Christchurch left devastated on New Zealand&#39;s &#39;darkest day&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 300 people were still trapped in collapsed buildings last night after a massive earthquake hit New Zealand&#8217;s second biggest city, Christchurch, claiming at least 75 lives and destroying buildings.<\/p>\n<p>As police, emergency services and hospitals struggled to cope with the disaster, which toppled the spire of Christchurch&#8217;s stone cathedral, the New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key, declared a national state of emergency.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, Mr Key vowed that Christchurch&#8217;s &#8220;comeback&#8221; would begin today. &#8220;Though lost lives will never be replaced, and though your city will never look the same again, you will rebuild your city, you will rebuild your lives, you will overcome,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/australasia\/christchurch-left-devastated-on-new-zealands-darkest-day-2222910.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 300 people were still trapped in collapsed buildings last night after a massive earthquake hit New Zealand&#8217;s second biggest city, Christchurch, claiming at least 75 lives and destroying buildings. As police, emergency services and hospitals struggled to cope<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24710\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news-commentary","category-australia-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}