{"id":62862,"date":"2024-03-26T18:04:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T09:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/26\/alan-titchmarsh-jeans-north-korean-tv-censors"},"modified":"2024-03-26T18:04:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T09:04:39","slug":"alan-titchmarshs-jeans-blurred-by-north-korean-tv-censors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62862","title":{"rendered":"Alan Titchmarsh\u2019s jeans blurred by North Korean TV censors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footage of green-fingered BBC presenter obscured from waist down to hide \u2018symbol of US imperialism\u2019<\/p>\n<p>His calm demeanour and wholesome vocation have apparently endeared him to one of the most authoritarian regimes in the world. But there is something about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/alan-titchmarsh\">Alan Titchmarsh<\/a> that North Korea\u2019s censors can\u2019t quite forgive \u2013 his jeans.<\/p>\n<p>The green-fingered broadcaster and author of raunchy novels has been a fixture on state television since 2022, albeit with the addition of a blurred effect from the waist down.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/26\/alan-titchmarsh-jeans-north-korean-tv-censors\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footage of green-fingered BBC presenter obscured from waist down to hide \u2018symbol of US imperialism\u2019His calm demeanour and wholesome vocation have apparently endeared him to one of the most authoritarian regimes in the world. But there is something abou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[3081,41,1762,458,71,576,421,78,40,519,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alan-titchmarsh","category-asia-pacific","category-bbc","category-censorship","category-culture","category-fashion","category-kim-jong-un","category-life-and-style","category-north-korea","category-television-radio","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\/62862","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62863,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62862\/revisions\/62863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}