{"id":61333,"date":"2019-05-15T11:51:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T11:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=61333"},"modified":"2019-05-15T11:51:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T11:51:59","slug":"new-zealand-pm-jacinda-ardern-returns-young-girls-dragon-research-bribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/new-zealand-pm-jacinda-ardern-returns-young-girls-dragon-research-bribe\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern returns young girl\u2019s \u2018dragon research\u2019 bribe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New  Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has rejected a \u201cbribe\u201d from an  11-year-old girl who wrote asking the government to conduct dragon  research, her office confirmed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The girl, identified \nas Victoria, wanted to be given telekinetic powers so she could become a\n dragon trainer .Writing back on official letterhead, Ardern said: \u201cWe \nwere very interested to hear your suggestions about psychics and \ndragons, but unfortunately we are not currently doing any work in either\n of these areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am therefore returning your bribe money, and I\n wish you all the very best in your quest for telekinesis, telepathy and\n dragons.\u201dIn a handwritten note, Ardern added: \u201cP.S. I\u2019ll still keep an \neye out for those dragons. Do they wear suits?\u201dExplaining the niche \nrequest, the girl\u2019s brother said her interest in telepathy comes from \nthe Netflix sci-fi series \u201cStranger Things\u201d, which features telepathy \nand telekinesis &#8211; the power to move things using one\u2019s mind.\n\n<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has rejected a \u201cbribe\u201d from an 11-year-old girl who wrote asking the government to conduct dragon research, her office confirmed on Tuesday. The girl, identified as Victoria, wanted to be given telekinetic powers so she could become a dragon trainer .Writing back on official letterhead, Ardern said: \u201cWe were [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61335,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61333\/revisions\/61335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}