{"id":412046,"date":"2026-01-14T09:59:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/412046\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:59:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:59:43","slug":"winston-peters-has-surgery-for-old-rugby-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/412046\/","title":{"rendered":"Winston Peters has surgery for old rugby injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has fully recovered from a pre-Christmas operation.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson confirmed Peters underwent a procedure in early December relating to an old rugby injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He returned to Parliament in the final week before the House rose,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now fully recovered he&#8217;s set to undertake international travel in his capacity as Foreign Minister in the coming days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Peters will depart for Kiribati in the coming days in what will be one of the few overseas trips he does this election year.<\/p>\n<p>The 80-year-old last underwent surgery in office in 2020 after visiting his doctor with food poisoning symptoms and dehydration.<\/p>\n<p>While the House won&#8217;t sit until January 27, political parties are gearing up for the year ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Christopher Luxon will deliver his state of the nation speech next Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Both National and Labour are holding their away caucus retreats next week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/584028\/winston-peters-fully-recovered-from-pre-christmas-operation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rnz.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has fully recovered from a pre-Christmas operation. A spokesperson confirmed Peters underwent a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,84,760,85,217906],"class_list":{"0":"post-412046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-politics","11":"tag-rugby","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-winston-peters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}