{"id":14206,"date":"2014-06-17T11:53:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T09:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14206"},"modified":"2014-06-17T12:08:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T10:08:53","slug":"demonstrators-burn-us-flag-at-soccer-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14206","title":{"rendered":"Demonstrators burn US flag at Soccer World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators burned a US flag near the stadium in northern Brazil where Vice President Joe Biden planned to attend the US soccer team&#8217;s opening World Cup match Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters in Natal shouted against &#8220;imperialism.&#8221; Security officers stopped them at a barricade about 2 kilometers (a mile) from the stadium&#8217;s gates.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-World Cup demonstrations also took place in the southern city of Curitiba before a match between Iran and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>After being repelled by police near that stadium, protesters regrouped downtown and used bricks and construction debris to smash windows of at least three banks. They also sprayed anti-World Cup slogans on city buses.<\/p>\n<p>Mass protests against the World Cup erupted\u00a0across Brazil last year and\u00a0demonstrations have continued\u00a0since the tournament began Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The protesters in Natal shouted against &#8220;imperialism.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[650,9083,9082,226,9081],"class_list":["post-14206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-brazil","tag-burning-us-flag","tag-demonstrations","tag-imperialism","tag-soccer-world-cup"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14209,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206\/revisions\/14209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}