{"id":20161,"date":"2017-12-19T14:46:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T13:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/19\/saudi-arabia-shoots-down-houthi-missile-close-to-riyadh\/"},"modified":"2017-12-19T14:46:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T13:46:11","slug":"saudi-arabia-shoots-down-houthi-missile-close-to-riyadh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=20161","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia &#039;shoots down Houthi missile close to Riyadh&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yemeni rebels say they fired ballistic missile towards a royal palace in the Saudi capital amid claims they are being armed by IranHouthi rebels in Yemen have claimed to have fired a ballistic missile towards the Saudi king\u2019s official residence in Riyadh, which Saudi media said was intercepted south of the capital.Mohammad Abdulsalam, a spokesman for the Houthis controlling the Yemeni capital of Sana\u2019a, said on Twitter that the missile was launched towards al-Yamama palace. The Saudi-owned television network Al Arabiya reported on its Arabic language website later on Tuesday that the rocket had been shot down. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/dec\/19\/saudis-shoot-down-houthi-missile-close-to-capital-riyadh\" target=\"_blank\">Saudi Arabia &#039;shoots down Houthi missile close to Riyadh&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemeni rebels say they fired ballistic missile towards a royal palace in the Saudi capital amid claims they are being armed by IranHouthi rebels in Yemen have claimed to have fired a ballistic missile towards the Saudi king\u2019s official residence in Riyadh, which Saudi media said was intercepted south of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}