{"id":22993,"date":"2020-09-23T04:08:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T19:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/22\/world-leaders-un-video-call-backdrops-ranked"},"modified":"2020-09-23T04:08:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T19:08:19","slug":"world-leaders-un-video-call-backdrops-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22993","title":{"rendered":"World leaders&#8217; UN video call backdrops \u2013 ranked!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the UN\u2019s first virtual general assembly, monarchs and presidents have faced presentational issues with their recorded messages<\/p>\n<p>In the age of the pandemic, the Zoom call background has become the latest social anxiety. Each choice is littered with potential pitfalls. Will bookshelves paint you as an intellectual show-off? If you sit in your garden, will your boss think you\u2019re slacking? What about the curveball option \u2013 the kitchen?<\/p>\n<p>World leaders, it seems, are not immune. As the United Nations general assembly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/sep\/22\/united-nations-75th-general-assembly-jair-bolsonaro-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-live-updates\">kicked off on Tuesday<\/a>, monarchs, presidents, and prime ministers did not fly to New York but instead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/19\/bye-bye-bilaterals-un-general-assembly-embrace-zoom-diplomacy\">sent in video messages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/22\/world-leaders-un-video-call-backdrops-ranked\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the UN\u2019s first virtual general assembly, monarchs and presidents have faced presentational issues with their recorded messagesIn the age of the pandemic, the Zoom call background has become the latest social anxiety. Each choice is littered with po&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1486,"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":[246,41,870,50,1018,212,55,524,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-chile","category-china","category-cuba","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-philippines","category-qatar","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22993","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\/1486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22996,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22993\/revisions\/22996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}