{"id":27625,"date":"2019-01-01T08:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T08:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27625"},"modified":"2019-01-01T08:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T08:22:26","slug":"new-york-dedicates-new-years-eve-ball-drop-to-press-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27625","title":{"rendered":"New York dedicates New Year&#8217;s Eve ball drop to press freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"65\">\n<p>Braving freezing cold and rain, thousands of people gathered at New York&#8217;s Times Square to ring in the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>In a gesture highlighting the importance of journalism and press freedom, the organisers invited journalists for the traditional lowering of the crystal ball.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Gabriel Elizondo reports from New York.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Braving freezing cold and rain, thousands of people gathered at New York&#8217;s Times Square to ring in the New Year. In a gesture highlighting the importance of journalism and press freedom, the organisers invited journalists for the traditional lowering of the crystal ball. Al Jazeera&#8217;s Gabriel Elizondo reports from New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27625","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=27625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}