{"id":139435,"date":"2022-05-16T21:02:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T02:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/elon-musk-wants-to-meet-his-chinese-doppelganger"},"modified":"2022-05-16T21:02:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T02:02:49","slug":"elon-musk-wants-to-meet-his-chinese-doppelganger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/elon-musk-wants-to-meet-his-chinese-doppelganger","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Wants to Meet His Chinese Doppelg\u00e4nger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-wants-to-meet-his-chinese-doppelganger2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is itching to meet his Chinese doppelg\u00e4nger \u2014 that is, if the man actually resembles the billionaire in real life.<\/p>\n<p>But first, some background for those unfamiliar with the self-described \u201cElong Musk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, a <a href=\"https:\/\/9gag.com\/hot\/aPZM9gK?utm_campaign=link_post&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Twitter\" class=\"\">video of Ma Yilong<\/a>, a Chinese man who seemingly bears a striking resemblance to Musk, <a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/chinese-elon-musk-elong-musk\" class=\"\">went viral<\/a> not only due to his uncanny resemblance, but also because it was unclear whether it was a deepfake or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is itching to meet his Chinese doppelg\u00e4nger \u2014 that is, if the man actually resembles the billionaire in real life. But first, some background for those unfamiliar with the self-described \u201cElong Musk.\u201d In recent months, a video of Ma Yilong, a Chinese man who seemingly bears a striking resemblance [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}