{"id":5819,"date":"2010-05-03T11:50:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T08:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=5819"},"modified":"2010-05-03T11:52:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T08:52:32","slug":"times-square-bomb-scare-53971468","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/times-square-bomb-scare-53971468\/","title":{"rendered":"Times Square open after bomb scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/times-square-bomb-nationalturk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5820\" title=\"Times Sq. open after bomb scare\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/times-square-bomb-nationalturk-280x168.jpg\" alt=\"Times Sq. open after bomb scare\" width=\"280\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/times-square-bomb-nationalturk-280x168.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/times-square-bomb-nationalturk.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Police found a car bomb in a parked sport utility vehicle Saturday evening in New York City&#8217;s Times Square, then evacuated buildings and cleared thousands of tourists from the landmark.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt appears to be a car bomb left in a Pathfinder between Seventh and Eighth,\u201d said Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne, the Police Department\u2019s chief spokesman. The device, he said, contained \u201cexplosive elements\u201d that included \u201cpropane tanks, some kind of powder, gasoline and a timing device.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police now believe a catastrophe was averted by technical failure of the explosive device.<\/p>\n<p>The White House said Sunday that President Barack Obama was being kept up to date on the investigation into the apparent car bomb found in New York City&#8217;s Times Square.<\/p>\n<p>White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said in a statement that Obama, who attended an annual gala dinner Saturday night for White House news correspondents, praised the quick and effective response by the New York Police Department.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! --><!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times Square open after bomb scare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,63,107,118,895],"tags":[629,7649,7647,7653,7651,7644,7652,2195,898,7648,7650],"class_list":["post-5819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-health","category-hot","category-life","tag-barack-obama","tag-new-york-times-square","tag-new-york-city-times-square","tag-new-york-police-department","tag-new-york-times-square-bomb","tag-nick-shapiro","tag-police-department","tag-president-barack-obama","tag-the-white-house","tag-times-square","tag-times-square-bomb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}