{"id":420199,"date":"2010-03-12T10:46:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T15:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=96288"},"modified":"2010-03-12T10:46:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T15:46:15","slug":"metallica-concert-riot-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/420199","title":{"rendered":"Metallica Concert Riot In Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metallica sure knows how to rock a crowd: Nearly 170 people were arrested Wednesday night after hundreds of fans tried to break into a Metallica concert in Bogota, Colombia. Police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse rioting concertgoers. Members of the nation&#8217;s military were on standby ahead of the gig following reports that the band&#8217;s show in Santiago, Chile was marred by rioting in January. More than 1,500 officials were organized to patrol the streets around Simon Bolivar Park ahead of Wednesday&#8217;s concert. Despite the extra efforts, at least eight people were injured when hundreds of fans without tickets attempted to force their way into the sold out performance.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dcEzmXrt1nc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dcEzmXrt1nc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/emztDcbGryHKCm3ZiCBE0OVr01A\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/emztDcbGryHKCm3ZiCBE0OVr01A\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/emztDcbGryHKCm3ZiCBE0OVr01A\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/emztDcbGryHKCm3ZiCBE0OVr01A\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metallica sure knows how to rock a crowd: Nearly 170 people were arrested Wednesday night after hundreds of fans tried to break into a Metallica concert in Bogota, Colombia. Police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse rioting concertgoers. Members of the nation&#8217;s military were on standby ahead of the gig following reports that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}