{"id":15496,"date":"2018-09-18T11:26:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T11:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15496"},"modified":"2018-09-18T11:26:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T11:26:29","slug":"maduro-dines-on-pricey-salt-bae-steaks-as-venezuelans-starve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15496","title":{"rendered":"Maduro dines on pricey &#8216;Salt Bae&#8217; steaks as Venezuelans starve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro feasted on pricey steaks and smoked cigars at a &#8220;Salt Bae&#8221; restaurant in Istanbul on Monday, drawing ire and condemnation back home, where an economy spiraling toward collapse has triggered a food crisis.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Videos posted to Twitter and Instagram by the Turkish celebrity chef Nusret G\u00f6k\u00e7e, known as Salt Bae for his signature style of seasoning steaks, show Maduro dining with his wife, Cilia Flores, as G\u00f6k\u00e7e dramatically slices meat at their table while gyrating his hips. Another clip captures Maduro puffing on a cigar as the couple receives T-shirts screen-printed with G\u00f6k\u00e7e&#8217;s likeness sprinkling salt.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;This is a once-in-a-lifetime moment,&#8221; Maduro can be heard saying to fellow diners.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro feasted on pricey steaks and smoked cigars at a &#8220;Salt Bae&#8221; restaurant in Istanbul on Monday, drawing ire and condemnation back home, where an economy spiraling toward collapse has triggered a food crisis. Videos posted to Twitter and Instagram by the Turkish celebrity chef Nusret G\u00f6k\u00e7e, known as Salt Bae for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}