{"id":63515,"date":"2024-04-22T18:46:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T09:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/22\/taiwan-president-lauds-nymphia-winds-win-on-rupauls-drag-race"},"modified":"2024-04-23T11:56:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T02:56:12","slug":"taiwan-president-lauds-nymphia-winds-win-on-rupauls-drag-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63515","title":{"rendered":"Joy in Taiwan \u2013 and praise from the president \u2013 as Nymphia Wind wins RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drag star celebrated with massive support at home after taking top prize in the long-running US reality show<\/p>\n<p>A drag queen has sparked national celebration as the \u201cpride of Taiwan\u201d and won praise and congratulations from the island\u2019s president after winning RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the long-running, Emmy award-winning US reality show, in which drag queens compete in challenges including lip-sync performances, revealed the winner of its 16th season as Nymphia Wind, the drag personality creation of Leo Tsao, a 28-year-old Taiwanese designer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/22\/taiwan-president-lauds-nymphia-winds-win-on-rupauls-drag-race\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drag star celebrated with massive support at home after taking top prize in the long-running US reality showA drag queen has sparked national celebration as the \u201cpride of Taiwan\u201d and won praise and congratulations from the island\u2019s president after winn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3456,"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":[41,71,2229,2729,74,519,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-drag","category-lgbtq-rights","category-taiwan","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\/63515","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\/3456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63543,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63515\/revisions\/63543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}