{"id":62058,"date":"2016-12-06T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=62058"},"modified":"2016-12-06T07:00:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T13:00:33","slug":"keith-urban-honors-1st-responders-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/06\/keith-urban-honors-1st-responders-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Urban Honors 1st Responders in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39412\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/keithurban01.jpg\" alt=\"KeithUrban01\" width=\"750\" height=\"423\" \/>Keith Urban Honors Earthquake First Responders at First New Zealand Show<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Keith Urban\u2019s Ripcord World Tour 2016\u2019 arrived at the Westpac Stadium in New Zealand yesterday and dozens of Civil Defence, Emergency Services and Defence Force personnel enjoyed the show, thanks to a generous ticket donation by Urban.\u00a0 The four-time Grammy and (Australian) ARIA Award winner, heard about the November 14<sup>th<\/sup> Kaikoura earthquake while finishing up the North American leg of his \u201cripCORD WORLD TOUR 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<em>We cannot forget the incredible work of our first responders at the local Civil Defense, Emergency Services and Defense Force,\u201d said Urban. \u00a0\u201cThese courageous men and women answer the call without hesitation and represent the best of the human spirit. \u00a0I\u2019m incredibly appreciative of not only what they did to protect everyone effected by the Kaikoura quake, but of what they do each and everyday \u2013 and so to have them come see us play and show them our appreciation is an honor.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Civil Defense, Emergency Services and Defense Personnel have worked tirelessly since the earthquake to assist people in affected areas in the top of the South Island and the Wellington region. This has included keeping the public regularly informed with safety messages and road and building closures, maintaining cordons in the CBD and delivering supplies to areas cut off by slips on the roads.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington is the only New Zealand stop on the \u2018ripCORD World Tour 2016,\u2019 after which it will head to Australia for performance in Adelaide, Melbourne (2), Canberra at the GIO Stadium, Sydney (2) and Brisbane (2).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; CMTT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Urban Honors Earthquake First Responders at First New Zealand Show Keith Urban\u2019s Ripcord World Tour 2016\u2019 arrived at the Westpac Stadium in New Zealand yesterday and dozens of Civil Defence, Emergency Services and Defence Force personnel enjoyed the show, thanks to a generous ticket donation by Urban.\u00a0 The four-time Grammy and (Australian) ARIA Award winner, heard about the November 14th Kaikoura earthquake while finishing up the North American leg of his \u201cripCORD WORLD TOUR 2016.\u201d \u201cWe cannot forget the incredible work of our first responders at the local Civil<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/06\/keith-urban-honors-1st-responders-in-new-zealand\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}