{"id":8694,"date":"2023-12-15T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T04:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8694"},"modified":"2023-12-15T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T04:38:08","slug":"wellington-delays-santa-parade-due-to-forecast-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8694","title":{"rendered":"Wellington delays Santa Parade due to forecast rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__body\">\n<p>Santa is deferring his visit to Wellington by a day due to heavy rain and northerlies forecast for the capital on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington City Council is now staging its Christmas event on Sunday, with a range of free activities in Waitangi Park including ice skating, a snow dome, foam pit, crafts and performances.<\/p>\n<p>Santa will touch down in his sleigh at 11am near the Clyde Quay Wharf Marina and head to Waitangi Park, where he will dismount to meet the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>He will then be available for private audiences in his grotto until 5pm.<\/p>\n<p>MetService said Wellington would have &#8220;occasional rain, persistent for a time late morning and afternoon&#8221; with &#8220;strong northerlies&#8221;. Rain was expected to be heaviest around 10am.<\/p>\n<p>It was also expected to rain on Sunday, however, according to the forecasters&#8217; website.<\/p>\n<p>A heavy rain watch was in place for the Tararua Range, north of the city, from 4am Saturday until early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__footer\">\nVIA RNZ<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa is deferring his visit to Wellington by a day due to heavy rain and northerlies forecast for the capital on Saturday. Wellington City Council is now staging its Christmas event on Sunday, with a range of free activities in Waitangi Park including ice skating, a snow dome, foam pit, crafts and performances. Santa will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694","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=8694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8696,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions\/8696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}