{"id":233231,"date":"2026-06-15T09:54:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=233231"},"modified":"2026-06-15T09:54:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:54:32","slug":"nationals-chief-whip-speaks-for-first-time-after-staying-silent-on-bombshell-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=233231","title":{"rendered":"National\u2019s chief whip speaks for first time after staying silent on bombshell report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart Smith says he did not try to contact Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to highlight flagging support within the caucus&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/politics\/360968738\/nationals-chief-whip-speaks-first-time-after-staying-silent-bombshell-report\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart Smith says he did not try to contact Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to highlight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","chromenews-featured":"","chromenews-large":"","chromenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>","tag_info":"Saudi Arabia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}