{"id":2405,"date":"2025-08-26T08:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2025-08-31T08:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:09:22","slug":"2025-local-body-elections-candidate-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/?p=2405","title":{"rendered":"2025 Local Body Elections -Candidate Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" align=\"left\" class=\"wp-image-2402\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/b8c35d70-def5-6638-64de-cb3e127e2256.jpg\" alt=\"\">A new WCC initiative shows Wellington local election candidates answering  questions in an online video format to help voters make a more informed voting decision this election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All candidates were asked the same questions, and were videoed in the same setting at the Council Offices. You can watch all videos along with their candidate statements online at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/govt.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=ea258b1df943178660013ccd9&amp;id=33866ae7d2&amp;e=c5505cd0cd\">wellington.govt.nz\/candidates<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new WCC initiative shows Wellington local election candidates answering questions in an online video format to help voters make a more informed voting decision this election. All candidates were asked the same questions, and were videoed in the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/?p=2405\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2406,"href":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/2406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngaio.org.nz\/wp2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}