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PM pays tribute to quiet hero Sir Bill Birch<\/a>  NZ HeraldTributes flow for Sir William Birch at a service farewelling the former finance minister<\/a>  RNZVale Sir Bill Birch, a minister who mattered<\/a>  thepost.co.nzSir Bill Birch: Politicians prepare to farewell former Finance Minister known for \u2018legendary diligence\u2019<\/a>  NZ HeraldArchitect of NZ’s Think Big projects and ex-finance minister dies<\/a>  Newstalk ZB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PM pays tribute to quiet hero Sir Bill Birch  NZ HeraldTributes flow for Sir William Birch at a service…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16574,125351,16426,2740,26524,12811,16427,6722,42677,111,43,139,69,17096,20442,16422,415,36262,28142,2202,8485,61,20838,86662],"class_list":["post-541329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-bill","tag-birch","tag-christopher","tag-former","tag-funeral","tag-hero","tag-luxon","tag-minister","tag-ministers","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-paying","tag-pays","tag-pm","tag-prime","tag-pukekohe","tag-quiet","tag-remarkable","tag-sir","tag-to","tag-tribute","tag-truly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541329","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=541329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}