{"id":489,"date":"2014-06-30T22:19:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T22:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aultcommunications.com\/rambles\/?p=489"},"modified":"2015-03-09T02:51:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T02:51:31","slug":"pandemonium-on-the-champs-elysees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aultcommunications.com\/rambles\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"Pandemonium on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public service announcement for friends and family back in America: The World Cup is happening. (If your acquaintances from other parts of the world are in unusually jolly or somber moods, this probably has something to do with it.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, France had a big win against Nigeria tonight and we happened to be on the Champs \u00c9lys\u00e9es during the match. As the game ended, at least 100 police vans full of cops in riot gear materialized out of nowhere. In short order they blocked intersecting traffic, herded people away from the curbs, and even shut down many of the famous stores (sorry Kelly S., your Louis Vuitton bag may have to wait).<\/p>\n<p>It seemed like overkill at first, but a few minutes later every crazy soccer fan in greater Paris was driving, walking, motorcycling, or biking down the boulevard&#8211;all of them honking or screaming or dancing. It was all a bit overwhelming, but everyone seemed to be having a great time and it never felt like it was on the brink of anything violent or dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this short video to get some idea of the crazy scene. <em>Allez Les Bleus!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_lzR8UpSHN8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public service announcement for friends and family back in America: The World Cup is happening. (If your acquaintances from other parts of the world are in unusually jolly or somber moods, this probably has something to do with it.) Anyway, France had a big win against Nigeria tonight and we happened to be on the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aultcommunications.com\/rambles\/?p=489\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Pandemonium on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,10],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe-2014","tag-france","tag-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aultcommunications.com\/rambles\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aultcommunications.com\/rambles\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aultcommunications.com\/rambles\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aultcommunications.com\/rambles\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aultcommunications.com\/rambles\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aultcommunications.com\/rambles\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/aultcommunications.com\/rambles\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aultcommunications.com\/rambles\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aultcommunications.com\/rambles\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aultcommunications.com\/rambles\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}