{"id":17273,"date":"2018-10-04T02:23:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T02:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17273"},"modified":"2018-10-04T02:23:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T02:23:40","slug":"british-pm-theresa-may-kicks-off-keynote-speech-with-dance-to-abba-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17273","title":{"rendered":"British PM Theresa May kicks off keynote speech with dance to ABBA song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Birmingham, UK (CNN)<\/cite>Theresa May isn&#8217;t much of a dancer. So the British Prime Minister&#8217;s decision to sway onto stage at her party&#8217;s annual gathering, accompanied by a blast of ABBA&#8217;s &#8220;Dancing Queen,&#8221; was a brave attempt to shrug (and shuffle and swivel) off memories of a disastrous speech last year. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">To rapturous applause at the Conservative conference in Birmingham, England, she twirled somewhat awkwardly into the auditorium &#8212; a self-deprecatory reference to dance moves she displayed on a recent visit to Africa.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The dance moves were part of an opening sequence in which she sought to dispel memories of a poor speech at the same event last year, when she was plagued by a cough, a prankster, and the signage falling from the stage behind her. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham, UK (CNN)Theresa May isn&#8217;t much of a dancer. So the British Prime Minister&#8217;s decision to sway onto stage at her party&#8217;s annual gathering, accompanied by a blast of ABBA&#8217;s &#8220;Dancing Queen,&#8221; was a brave attempt to shrug (and shuffle and swivel) off memories of a disastrous speech last year. To rapturous applause at the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17273","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\/17273","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=17273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}