{"id":2279,"date":"2010-11-01T13:45:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T01:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2010-11-01T13:45:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T01:45:13","slug":"new-zealands-wellington-named-the-worlds-coolest-capital-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/new-zealands-wellington-named-the-worlds-coolest-capital-city\/","title":{"rendered":"News Brief: Wellington named the world\u2019s coolest capital\u00a0city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;\">That\u2019s right, move over London, Rome and Paris, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\">Lonely Planet <\/a>has named Wellington the fourth best city in which to travel in the world, behind New York, Tangier and Tel Aviv naming it as the \u2018coolest little capital in the world.\u2019<a href=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/wellington.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-372\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/wellington.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;\">It is the first time a New Zealand city has made it into the annual Best in Travel publication, a collection of the world&#8217;s best trends, destinations, journeys and experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size:x-small;\">With all Wellington has to offer, from the international renowned <\/span><\/span><a style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldofwearableart.com\">World of Wearable Arts <\/a><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size:x-small;\">show held every September to the fascinating interactive national museum <\/span><\/span><a style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tepapa.govt.nz\">Te Papa <\/a><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size:x-small;\">and the bustling arts and cafe culture, we aren\u2019t surprised with Wellington\u2019s newest title. To the right is the view from\u00a0Wellington Botanic Gardens, looking over the city and\u00a0harbor.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;\">Wellington is 45-minute flight from Christchurch, the last stop on the <a href=\"http:\/\/auip.com\/programs\/newzealand\">New Zealand program<\/a>, and a one-hour flight from Auckland, from where the majority of international flights depart, making it an ideal option for a trip after the program ends and before heading home!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size:x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s right, move over London, Rome and Paris, Lonely Planet has named Wellington the fourth best city in which to travel in the world, behind New York, Tangier and Tel Aviv naming it as the \u2018coolest little capital in the world.\u2019 It is the first time a New Zealand city has made it into the annual Best in Travel publication,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-zealand","category-news-brief"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}