{"id":712,"date":"2003-01-02T11:43:07","date_gmt":"2003-01-02T15:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2003\/01\/02\/\/"},"modified":"2003-01-02T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2003-01-02T15:43:07","slug":"712","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2003\/01\/712\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&amp;cid=857&amp;ncid=757&amp;e=10&amp;u=\/nm\/20030101\/od_uk_nm\/oukoe_newyear_crime_safrica\" rel=\"external\"><strong>Some South Africans hurl beds to greet New Year<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Year revellers in South Africa&#8217;s commercial capital Johannesburg celebrated 2003 by hurling beds, televisions and other missiles from their windows, injuring 46 passers-by, police say. A police spokesman said party-goers in the city&#8217;s notoriously dangerous Hillbrow district had thrown televisions, beds, bottles and rocks from apartment windows and that gunshots had been heard from one building.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is customary in Hillbrow for people to celebrate the New Year by throwing objects off their balconies,&#8221; he said on Wednesday, but added that recent year-end festivities had been much calmed by an increased police presence in the district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some South Africans hurl beds to greet New Year New Year revellers in South Africa&#8217;s commercial capital Johannesburg celebrated 2003 by hurling beds, televisions and other missiles from their windows, injuring 46 passers-by, police say. A police spokesman said party-goers in the city&#8217;s notoriously dangerous Hillbrow district had thrown televisions, beds, bottles and rocks from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}