{"id":36225,"date":"2021-08-31T10:50:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T01:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/31\/new-zealand-ministers-tv-interview-interrupted-by-son-waving-phallic-carrot"},"modified":"2021-08-31T10:50:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T01:50:14","slug":"new-zealand-ministers-tv-interview-interrupted-by-son-waving-phallic-carrot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36225","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand minister\u2019s TV interview interrupted by son waving phallic carrot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carmel Sepuloni said she would \u2018never buy the odd shaped carrot pack again\u2019 after \u2018almost wrestling\u2019 with son over vegetable<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/newzealand\">New Zealand<\/a> cabinet minister has become the latest public figure to be embarrassed by an unfortunate incident involving a video call after her live TV interview was interrupted by her son, who entered the room excitedly brandishing a phallic carrot.<\/p>\n<p>Carmel Sepuloni, the minister for social development, was doing a live Zoom interview with Radio Samoa when her grinning son burst through the door behind her, holding an oddly shaped carrot he\u2019d apparently found among the groceries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/31\/new-zealand-ministers-tv-interview-interrupted-by-son-waving-phallic-carrot\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carmel Sepuloni said she would \u2018never buy the odd shaped carrot pack again\u2019 after \u2018almost wrestling\u2019 with son over vegetableA New Zealand cabinet minister has become the latest public figure to be embarrassed by an unfortunate incident involving a vide&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"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":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","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\/36225","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\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36226,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36225\/revisions\/36226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}