{"id":17188,"date":"2020-04-15T11:05:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T02:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/15\/new-zealand-comedian-melanie-bracewell-spends-lockdown-impersonating-jacinda-ardern"},"modified":"2020-04-15T11:05:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T02:05:41","slug":"new-zealand-comedian-spends-lockdown-impersonating-jacinda-ardern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17188","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand comedian spends lockdown impersonating Jacinda Ardern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melanie Bracewell decided to experiment after repeated comments about her likeness to the prime minister<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jacinda Ardern has expressed her admiration for the skills of a New Zealand comedian who has kept herself busy during the national lockdown by impersonating the prime minister on TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>Melanie Bracewell has been in self-isolation for nearly five weeks, and after repeated comments regarding her likeness to the prime minister, decided to experiment with copying the prime minister\u2019s makeup, hairstyle, clothes and speech.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/15\/new-zealand-comedian-melanie-bracewell-spends-lockdown-impersonating-jacinda-ardern\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melanie Bracewell decided to experiment after repeated comments about her likeness to the prime ministerCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJacinda Ardern has expressed her admiration for the skills of a New Zealand comedian who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"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":[41,1069,914,268,56,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-science"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17188","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\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17189,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17188\/revisions\/17189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}