{"id":13120,"date":"2002-08-25T19:01:21","date_gmt":"2002-08-26T00:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/08\/25\/nz-wizard-seeks-charms-of-normal-life\/"},"modified":"2002-08-25T19:01:21","modified_gmt":"2002-08-26T00:01:21","slug":"nz-wizard-seeks-charms-of-normal-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/08\/25\/13120-nz-wizard-seeks-charms-of-normal-life\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ wizard seeks charms of normal life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">New Zealand&#8217;s weirdest government appointee is hanging up his pointy hat and retiring. Ian Brackenbury Channell, who has been deemed a &#8220;living work of art&#8221;, is going back to life as a normal person after taking up his office in Christchurch in the late 1970s. [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/asia-pacific\/2214505.stm \"TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand&#8217;s weirdest government appointee is hanging up his pointy hat and retiring. Ian Brackenbury Channell, who has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-3pC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}