{"id":3578,"date":"2017-08-23T02:02:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T00:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/23\/hey-macarena-saudi-police-detain-14-year-old-boy-for-dancing-in-the-street\/"},"modified":"2017-08-23T02:02:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T00:02:06","slug":"hey-macarena-saudi-police-detain-14-year-old-boy-for-dancing-in-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=3578","title":{"rendered":"Hey Macarena: Saudi police detain 14-year-old boy for dancing in the street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teenager filmed performing 1990s dance hit at traffic lights held for \u2018improper public behaviour\u2019 in JeddahSaudi police said on Tuesday they had detained a 14-year-old boy who was filmed dancing to the 1990s hit song Macarena at a street crossing in the coastal city of Jeddah, in a clip that was widely shared on social media. The teenager, whose name and nationality were not given, was being questioned because he had shown \u201cimproper public behaviour\u201d and disrupted traffic, a statement from Mecca police said. It was not clear whether he would be formally charged. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/aug\/23\/hey-macarena-saudi-police-detain-14-year-old-boy-for-dancing-in-the-street\" target=\"_blank\">Hey Macarena: Saudi police detain 14-year-old boy for dancing in the street<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teenager filmed performing 1990s dance hit at traffic lights held for \u2018improper public behaviour\u2019 in JeddahSaudi police said on Tuesday they had detained a 14-year-old boy who was filmed dancing to the 1990s hit song Macarena at a street crossing in the coastal city of Jeddah, in a clip that [&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-3578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578","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=3578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}