{"id":7416,"date":"2023-08-24T05:17:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7416"},"modified":"2023-08-24T05:17:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:17:47","slug":"pm-hipkins-to-work-from-hospital-with-sick-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7416","title":{"rendered":"PM Hipkins to work from hospital with sick child"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is working from hospital while his young daughter gets treatment for a blood condition.<\/p>\n

Hipkins posted on social media that his two children both have a blood condition named Von Willebrand Syndrome, a clotting disorder.<\/p>\n

He will be unable to attend some engagements while spending time with his family, he wrote.<\/p>\n

“I don’t normally talk publicly about my kids because I want them to grow up out of the public spotlight, but sometimes it’s unavoidable.<\/p>\n

“Today my 4-year-old is in hospital for some needed treatment, so for the rest of the day while that is happening I’ll be working from the hospital while I’m focused on her.<\/p>\n

“All going well I’ll be back at work soon, but thanks to my colleagues for covering a few engagements over the next couple of days that I’m going to have to miss.”<\/p>\n

Hipkins,\u00a0who has said he is separated from his wife, has two young children, a boy and a girl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Lots of New Zealanders rely on the generosity of those who give blood,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

“Thank you to all those who help out people like my little girl.”<\/p>\n

RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is working from hospital while his young daughter gets treatment for a blood condition. Hipkins posted on social media that his two children both have a blood condition named Von Willebrand Syndrome, a clotting disorder. He will be unable to attend some engagements while spending time with his family, he wrote. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7418,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions\/7418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}