{"id":46352,"date":"2024-01-14T15:07:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T05:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=46352"},"modified":"2024-01-14T15:07:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T05:07:40","slug":"former-new-zealand-pm-jacinda-ardern-has-married-her-longtime-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=46352","title":{"rendered":"Former New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern has married her longtime partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has married her longtime partner, tying the knot after Covid restrictions forced the couple to cancel a ceremony in 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the back of her shock resignation in January last year, Ardern told reporters she was looking forward to &#8220;finally&#8221; getting hitched to her TV presenter fiance.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old married fishing show host Clarke Gayford, 47, in a small ceremony held on Saturday in New Zealand&#8217;s Hawke&#8217;s Bay wine region.<\/p>\n<p>The couple planned to marry in early 2022, but were forced to cancel after Ardern&#8217;s government ramped up Covid restrictions in the face of surging cases.<\/p>\n<p>Ardern won international acclaim for her handling of the pandemic, although her popularity within New Zealand had soured in the months before she stood down from politics.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand media reported a small number of anti-vaccination demonstrators attempted to protest outside the wedding venue.<\/p>\n<p>An international hero of progressive politics, Ardern steered New Zealand through natural disasters, the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2019 Christchurch mosque massacre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has married her longtime partner, tying the knot after Covid restrictions forced the couple to cancel a ceremony in 2022. On the back of her shock resignation in January last year, Ardern told reporters she was looking forward to &#8220;finally&#8221; getting hitched to her TV presenter fiance. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[190],"class_list":["post-46352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-former-new-zealand-pm-jacinda-ardern-has-married-her-longtime-partner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}