{"id":541052,"date":"2026-07-23T23:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/541052\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T23:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:27:16","slug":"theres-an-irony-to-shane-jones-knee-pads-jibe-and-theres-a-bigger-question-to-consider-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/541052\/","title":{"rendered":"There's an irony to Shane Jones' knee pads jibe. And there's a bigger question to consider – Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an irony to Shane Jones’ knee pads jibe. And there’s a bigger question to consider<\/a>  StuffChris Hipkins takes aim at PM over NZ First\u2019s \u2018oral sex\u2019, \u2018masturbation\u2019 jibes<\/a>  thepost.co.nz‘Take off your kneepads’: Shane Jones takes dig at Luxon over Modi visit<\/a>  NZ HeraldHipkins slams ‘knee pads’ inaction but equivocal on working with NZ First<\/a>  RNZStop populist \u2018cosplay\u2019, says Luxon, as Jones dismisses \u2018take off your knee-pads\u2019 uproar<\/a>  Stuff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There’s an irony to Shane Jones’ knee pads jibe. And there’s a bigger question to consider  StuffChris Hipkins takes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,2114],"class_list":["post-541052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541052","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=541052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}