{"id":16405,"date":"2020-03-27T13:48:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T04:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/27\/new-zealand-scrubs-up-for-formalfridays-despite-coronavirus-lockdown"},"modified":"2020-03-27T13:48:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T04:48:54","slug":"new-zealand-scrubs-up-for-formalfridays-despite-coronavirus-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16405","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand scrubs up for #formalfridays despite coronavirus lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kiwis are keeping their spirits \u2013 and sartorial standards \u2013 up by working from home while dressed in suits, business attire or full evening-wear<\/p>\n<p>Proving that clothes maketh even the virtual man, many New Zealanders are spending their second day of a nationwide lockdown dressed to the nines as part of the burgeoning #formalFridays movement.<\/p>\n<p>The practice, introduced to the world by US talkshow host Jimmy Kimmel, encourages the millions of people currently under lockdowns or working from home in self-isolation, to take off their athleisure and tracksuits for a day, and instead, dress fancy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/27\/new-zealand-scrubs-up-for-formalfridays-despite-coronavirus-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiwis are keeping their spirits \u2013 and sartorial standards \u2013 up by working from home while dressed in suits, business attire or full evening-wearProving that clothes maketh even the virtual man, many New Zealanders are spending their second day of a nat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"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":[41,1069,914,351,238,56,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-internet","category-media","category-new-zealand","category-twitter"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16405","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\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16406,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16405\/revisions\/16406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}