{"id":44931,"date":"2022-05-28T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/28\/please-tell-me-that-is-not-your-penis-new-zealands-shortland-street-in-14-key-moments"},"modified":"2022-05-28T05:00:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T20:00:13","slug":"please-tell-me-that-is-not-your-penis-new-zealands-shortland-street-in-14-key-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44931","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Please tell me that is not your penis!\u2019 New Zealand\u2019s Shortland Street in 14 key moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s longest-running soap opera marks 30 years on air this week. Here we celebrate some of its most infamous scenes<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the scene that tackled the issue of sexting and made waves all the way to Jimmy Kimmel in the US, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/entertainment\/tv-radio\/90005798\/jimmy-kimmel-spoofs-shortland-st-cliffhanger\">spoofed it on his talk show<\/a>, with Alec Baldwin parodying Dr Chris Warner. Warner confronts his son Harry, whose phone is synced to the family tablet. A red-faced, puffed-up Warner barks incredulously, \u201cPlease tell me that is not your penis!\u201d just as the cliffhanger drumbeat from the closing credits dramatically kicks in.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/28\/please-tell-me-that-is-not-your-penis-new-zealands-shortland-street-in-14-key-moments\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s longest-running soap opera marks 30 years on air this week. Here we celebrate some of its most infamous scenesIt\u2019s the scene that tackled the issue of sexting and made waves all the way to Jimmy Kimmel in the US, who spoofed it on his talk sh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2280,"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":[41,71,2274,56,520,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-entertainment-tv","category-new-zealand","category-television","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44931","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\/2280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44932,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44931\/revisions\/44932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}