{"id":60398,"date":"2023-12-06T23:43:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T14:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/06\/venice-gondola-capsizes-tourists-canal"},"modified":"2023-12-06T23:43:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T14:43:13","slug":"venice-gondola-capsizes-after-tourists-refuse-to-sit-down-and-stop-taking-selfies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60398","title":{"rendered":"Venice gondola capsizes after tourists refuse to sit down and stop taking selfies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video of passengers and gondolier ending up in canal water widely shared online<\/p>\n<p>A group of tourists fell into a murky, cold canal in Venice when the gondola in which they were travelling capsized after they failed to heed an order to stop taking selfies and sit down.<\/p>\n<p>The gondolier, who had been attempting a tricky manoeuvre as he navigated the vessel under a bridge close to the area of St Mark\u2019s Square, also ended up in the water before scrambling to rescue his passengers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/06\/venice-gondola-capsizes-tourists-canal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video of passengers and gondolier ending up in canal water widely shared onlineA group of tourists fell into a murky, cold canal in Venice when the gondola in which they were travelling capsized after they failed to heed an order to stop taking selfies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"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":[50,221,451,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-europe","category-italy","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\/60398","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\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60399,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60398\/revisions\/60399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}