{"id":6181,"date":"2015-05-30T14:14:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T14:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=6181"},"modified":"2015-05-30T14:16:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T14:16:57","slug":"new-zealand-mp-caught-using-unparliamentary-language-by-sign-language-interpreter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=6181","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand MP caught using unparliamentary language by sign language interpreter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/05\/ron_mark.jpg\" alt=\"NZ MP Ron Mark\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6182\" \/>In politics passion often rises to the surface in the rough and tumble of debate; and that&#8217;s exactly what happened in the New Zealand parliament in the case of Ron Mark, a member of parliament for the conservative <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Zealand_First\">New Zealand First<\/a> party.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/mp-caught-swearing-parliament-sign-5743221\">Mirror reports<\/a> that Mr Mark became irritated with muttering from across the chamber during a pre-budget question time debate in a tense parliamentary session.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Mark was interrupted by jeering from the Government benches and muttered &#8220;shut the f**k up&#8221; under his breath.<\/p>\n<p>This went unnoticed by his fellow members, but a sign language interpreter who had been invited to parliament as part of sign language awareness week did hear his outburst and signed it for all to see.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mark later apologised for his unparliamentary language. <\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlas-translations.co.uk\/\">Atlas Translations<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In politics passion often rises to the surface in the rough and tumble of debate; and that&#8217;s exactly what happened in the New Zealand parliament in the case of Ron Mark, a member of parliament for the conservative New Zealand First party. The Mirror reports that Mr Mark became irritated with muttering from across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[16,22,20],"class_list":["post-6181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-politics","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6185,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181\/revisions\/6185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}