{"id":11307,"date":"2019-11-20T11:51:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T02:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/20\/stephen-colbert-jacinda-ardern-new-zealand-late-show-bbq-bohemiam-rhapsody"},"modified":"2019-11-20T11:51:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T02:51:12","slug":"bohemian-rhapsody-and-a-bbq-stephen-colbert-visits-jacinda-ardern-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11307","title":{"rendered":"Bohemian Rhapsody and a BBQ: Stephen Colbert visits Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister collects chat show host from the airport in first episode of \u2018The Newest Zealander\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Late Show\u2019s Stephen Colbert engaged in potentially copyright-infringing carpool karaoke with prime minister Jacinda Ardern and pranked Lorde at a barbecue \u2013 aka a \u201cNew Zealand state dinner\u201d \u2013 as he made good on a promise to get as far away as possible from news about Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The chat show host got straight to it in his sit-down interview with the New Zealand prime minister for Tuesday night\u2019s opening episode, called the \u201cNewest Zealander\u201d, pleading to become a citizen and offering to marry Ardern and partner Clarke Gayford.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/20\/stephen-colbert-jacinda-ardern-new-zealand-late-show-bbq-bohemiam-rhapsody\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister collects chat show host from the airport in first episode of \u2018The Newest Zealander\u2019The Late Show\u2019s Stephen Colbert engaged in potentially copyright-infringing carpool karaoke with prime minister Jacinda Ardern and pranked Lorde at a barb&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,268,947,425,56,519],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-lorde","category-music","category-new-zealand","category-television-radio"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11308,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307\/revisions\/11308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}