{"id":20899,"date":"2018-11-03T04:22:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T04:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20899"},"modified":"2018-11-03T04:22:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T04:22:20","slug":"the-legs-that-stopped-a-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20899","title":{"rendered":"The legs that stopped a nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite><em>&#8220;I was surrounded by cameramen, all on their knees like proposing Victorian swains, shooting upwards to make my skirt look even shorter. I had no idea this was going to happen &#8212; this was publicity that I certainly had not planned.&#8221;<\/em> Model Jean Shrimpton.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">On a sultry spring day in 1965, silence descended on the packed crowd gathered at Australia&#8217;s biggest sporting event.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">All eyes were on British supermodel Jean Shrimpton as she arrived at the prestigious <a href=\"http:\/\/melbournecup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne Cup Carnival<\/a> &#8212; or more accurately, all attention was focused on the 22-year-old&#8217;s legs.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)&#8221;I was surrounded by cameramen, all on their knees like proposing Victorian swains, shooting upwards to make my skirt look even shorter. I had no idea this was going to happen &#8212; this was publicity that I certainly had not planned.&#8221; Model Jean Shrimpton.On a sultry spring day in 1965, silence descended on the packed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20899","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\/20899","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=20899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}