{"id":3002,"date":"2010-01-04T13:59:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T11:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2010-01-04T15:24:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T13:24:23","slug":"world-new-years-celebrations-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/world-new-years-celebrations-video\/","title":{"rendered":"World New Years Celebrations &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3003\" title=\"sydney fieworks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sydney-fieworks-280x214.jpg\" alt=\"sydney fieworks\" width=\"280\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sydney-fieworks-280x214.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sydney-fieworks.jpg 467w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/>Millions of people across New York gathered in Times Square to go into the New Year amid spectacular firework displays.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Freezing temperatures did nothing to dampen the party atmosphere in New York, UK and Edinburgh, though celebrations were cancelled in Inverness because of severe weather.<\/p>\n<p>The New Year was also marked in style in other countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of revelers in chilly weather in Times Square cheered when an 11,875-pound (5,400-kilogram) crystal ball covered with more than 32,000 bulbs dropped at midnight, ushering in the new decade and ending 10 years marred by war, recession, terrorism and threats of environmental catastrophe.<\/p>\n[media id=83 width=610 height=340]\n<p>Fireworks were set off and 3,000 pounds (1,360 kilograms) of confetti were scattered when the gigantic New Year&#8217;s Eve ball dropped. Many people wore conical party hats and 2010 glasses that blinked colorfully, and some were jumping up and down to keep warm &#8211; the National Weather Service said the temperature was be around freezing and predicted snow.<\/p>\n<p>Cellphones were brought out to document the last few hours of a decade many wanted to leave behind. The crowds brought out heightened security. Hundreds of police officers were scattered around Times Square. Snipers were at various locations.<\/p>\n<p>In Hong Kong, about 500,000 people watched a fireworks display explode from the tops of skyscrapers in Victoria Harbour. Hong Kong Welcomed 2010 with a Spectacular Display- The show continues with a four-and-a-half-minute choreographed musical pyrotechnic show from 10 landmark buildings on Hong Kong Island, synchronised to a special theme song created by award-winning Hong Kong musician Mr Peter Kam.<\/p>\n[media id=81 width=610 height=340]\n<p>In Europe, there were spectacular firework events in Berlin, Moscow&#8217;s Red Square and the Brandenburg Gate, Paris.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 4)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of people across New York gathered in Times Square to go into the New Year amid spectacular firework displays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,30,17,118,14],"tags":[3950,3953,3952,3951,3949],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-asia","category-europe","category-hot","category-world","tag-new-year-celebrations-new-york","tag-new-years-celebrations","tag-new-years-celebrations-hong-kong","tag-new-years-celebrations-times-square","tag-new-years-celebrations-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}