{"id":46092,"date":"2022-07-06T22:52:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T13:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/06\/taiwan-kidnapping-charges-over-botched-marriage-proposal-dropped"},"modified":"2022-07-06T22:52:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T13:52:14","slug":"taiwan-kidnapping-charges-over-botched-marriage-proposal-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46092","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan kidnapping charges over botched marriage proposal dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors decide woman  bundled into suitcase and driven off in car boot was surprise gone wrong<\/p>\n<p>Taiwanese prosecutors have dropped charges against three individuals accused of kidnapping, after learning that the incident was a staged \u201csurprise marriage proposal\u201d that went wrong.<\/p>\n<p>In March, 24-year-old Yang, of the north-western city of Taoyuan, decided to propose to her girlfriend, Huang. She wanted the experience to be memorable, so she hired twomen through a part-time job search app to stage a \u201ckidnapping\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/06\/taiwan-kidnapping-charges-over-botched-marriage-proposal-dropped\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors decide woman  bundled into suitcase and driven off in car boot was surprise gone wrongTaiwanese prosecutors have dropped charges against three individuals accused of kidnapping, after learning that the incident was a staged \u201csurprise marria&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46093,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46092\/revisions\/46093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}