{"id":546034,"date":"2026-07-27T10:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/546034\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T10:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:10:11","slug":"broadcaster-and-waitaki-councillor-jim-hopkins-dies-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/546034\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadcaster and Waitaki councillor Jim Hopkins dies &#8211; Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimAFBVV95cUxNZXZpemFLMGlDblo2a3FhYU1qNUNoSHBnYkhubGRPbnB3WDhkX1dfajZKdlIyWFVsWG1kMmVWQW43VWdfZ25idk5mUlBsLXFsb3BzOXhsOEo5b3dzWmxiNlFLTWxpOUhDaFFDN0xKMGRYX0d1ZVQxRHhfNzdocDhEd3Q1NzBaLVQ1WXpLdFhrb0JMa0xiQWI1Uw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Broadcaster and Waitaki councillor Jim Hopkins dies<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Stuff<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikgFBVV95cUxNbzFwbnBURF9KdWtFdklJQnZrcFRxS1pkRENzRWUxU1hudkQycWExbmNFdFBBTllCMUdxVXVtUldLTEVRV2hDMklBUHJfYzgzLVNWUFR1ekJJR1ZKeEFhRHRqLUZmT0lTT1V3ZC0telNBcW5QNGhnZjlxOVhfaFhNa3RBNm1STzI4UElxYVpfN3ZBdw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Veteran broadcaster Jim Hopkins dies aged 80<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RNZ<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimwFBVV95cUxQZFhuZkg1dU5RbVMwVVdOeEh0U3lvRUhDNTF2Q2gwd0kzcXk5YnpucVVSME1qRmxrSDJES3lOYnM5MHZqY2QzRXp1QlpvZ0JIMDk1dkJqdGtNTHFCTGxPWmZQRlVDakFWV2M0aWZ1MXR4OHRRN2d4cFlxUmY2V0hUbGdkSWxjV2h0Z3JuRWZhZkFZZEp1dXhLMC1aaw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Veteran broadcaster and Waitaki councillor Jim Hopkins dies<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;1News<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiygFBVV95cUxNNGdSLU0wRFNNcHlsdU9YZjBCbUFwYmpQVk1sbWJvclgzS2pZX3dFUjBnd1RFbFoxaUU1RGRDUHJIMXA2dHoybDlIMDhfVUl5WElQRy1uRWlYRU5nOHFYd19pRVBLbUpDQy1CX1YzeGMtcDNnbUMyZTEtTGprb3A4UVNwZVhrMDVWaHdoVVNLOE95OHhvM3Z5eHMzMmRyQU5oMmNncVBuaVJ2aVNtdUhCQmMzRllqUjBkaTctYnJ1NVNzRmItemJUcDFR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Veteran broadcaster, long-serving councillor Jim Hopkins dies<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;NZ Herald<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirAFBVV95cUxNazBWd0xrand4clMxOWZZdG1XR0tDdVROQlRHVlVHSW9JZGtFRU0tbWxqblY5ZktXUU1PRFFMV253b1ZiUWpKWkpFOTZEc1JXU2U5RHBBZ29jdmNLTzV1S09malhyR21md1NFWEZURmI0NTR5akpfM09laF9nYnR6a2FCcUhVdTFQQUNjYnlNUmVLejJpdHR5M2RURXdudmdqNXgwM24zbkNTUlJh?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Waitaki councillor and former TV presenter Jim Hopkins dies<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;ODT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broadcaster and Waitaki councillor Jim Hopkins dies&nbsp;&nbsp;StuffVeteran broadcaster Jim Hopkins dies aged 80&nbsp;&nbsp;RNZVeteran broadcaster and Waitaki councillor Jim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1763,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-546034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-article","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546034","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=546034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}