{"id":75313,"date":"2025-10-13T08:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/75313\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:47:08","slug":"onehunga-cancels-2025-christmas-parade-citing-squeezed-funding-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/75313\/","title":{"rendered":"Onehunga cancels 2025 Christmas parade citing squeezed funding, capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">Puxty said the association understood how much the parade meant to the businesses, families and children of Onehunga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe share deeply in this disappointment,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur focus now is ensuring the long-term sustainability of Business Onehunga, so we can continue to promote and celebrate all things Onehunga. <\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThank you for your continued support and understanding, it truly means the world to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">Several locals expressed their sadness in their comments about the cancellation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">One person said: \u201cI feel for the community children who will miss out,\u201d while another said: \u201cThe local children will be so disappointed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Puxty said the association understood how much the parade meant to the businesses, families and children of Onehunga.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[836,4765,3110,138,20703,28721,12509,18399,45134,738,541,111,43,139,69,31779,34258,8279,15251],"class_list":["post-75313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-836","tag-annual","tag-association","tag-business","tag-cancelled","tag-cancels","tag-capacity","tag-christmas","tag-citing","tag-funding","tag-limited","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-onehunga","tag-parade","tag-resources","tag-squeezed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75313","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=75313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}