{"id":494012,"date":"2026-06-25T00:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T00:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/494012\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T00:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T00:48:09","slug":"eru-kapa-kingi-repeatedly-punches-bag-after-saying-it-represents-christopher-luxon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/494012\/","title":{"rendered":"Eru Kapa-Kingi repeatedly punches bag after saying it represents Christopher Luxon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">In the comments related to the video, Kapa-Kingi then asked followers to share \u201cwhat\/who you\u2019re imagining the bag to be\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">The post received a number of comments of support, including from Green Party candidate Tania Waikato, who wrote \u201cmy brooooo\u201d among a series of laughing emojis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Others commented on the post that they variously imagined the punching bag as David Seymour, Karen Chhour, Tama Potaka and Paul Goldsmith. Kapa-Kingi liked those comments and also liked a comment stating \u201cthey all deserve more than a punch\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Kapa-Kingi also replied to a comment with \u201clet it all out whanaunga! Can\u2019t catch a charge this way either, we all win\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I don\u2019t give it any thought\u2019: Luxon responds<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Asked what he made of the video, Luxon responded: \u201cI don\u2019t give it any thought\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Luxon said he had other things on his plate to focus on and said it was up to leaders from all sectors to manage their own rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI manage mine and call on other leaders to do the same,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the comments related to the video, Kapa-Kingi then asked followers to share \u201cwhat\/who you\u2019re imagining the bag&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19053,74,53893,16426,124,7123,84399,19473,8241,1317,702,52147,16427,6722,2720,111,139,69,384,8240,415,85935,181285,30619,196031,2687,213,2215],"class_list":["post-494012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-activist","tag-after","tag-bag","tag-christopher","tag-could","tag-current","tag-eru","tag-footage","tag-himself","tag-imagine","tag-it","tag-kapakingi","tag-luxon","tag-minister","tag-mori","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-posted","tag-prime","tag-punches","tag-punching","tag-repeatedly","tag-represents","tag-saying","tag-sports","tag-suggested"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}