{"id":16343,"date":"2014-09-16T01:41:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T01:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/some-sticky-photos-of-amsterdam-s-tomato-fest\/"},"modified":"2014-09-16T01:41:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T01:41:36","slug":"some-sticky-photos-of-amsterdam-s-tomato-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/some-sticky-photos-of-amsterdam-s-tomato-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Sticky Photos of Amsterdam&#8217;s Tomato Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Food fights are certainly one way to get a point across. <\/p>\n<p>Dutch people gathered in Amsterdam for Tomato Fest (or Tomatengevecht) on Sunday to protest Russia&#8217;s embargo on foods imported from the European Union, according to CNN. Russia imposed the embargo in response to western sanctions against the country. <\/p>\n<p>In Amsterdam&#8217;s Dam Square, protestors gathered for an hour to stomp, squish and smear 120,000 tomatoes deemed unfit for human consumption. <\/p>\n<p>About 1,000 participants purchased tickets at 15 euros ($19) each, with proceeds from Tomato Fest going toward tomato growers hurt by the Russian sanctions, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The festival was modeled after Spain&#8217;s famed La Tomatina, in which thousands of participants bask in the messy glory of one of the world&#8217;s biggest food fights.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-6932 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-6931 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/22-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-6930 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3-20.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-6929 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-6928 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/55-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-6927 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/6-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-6926 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/77-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-6925 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/8-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Mashable.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food fights are certainly one way to get a point across. Dutch people gathered in Amsterdam for Tomato Fest (or Tomatengevecht) on Sunday to protest Russia&#8217;s embargo on foods imported from the European Union, according to CNN. Russia imposed the embargo in response to western sanctions against the country. In Amsterdam&#8217;s Dam Square, protestors gathered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000053999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-16343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000053999,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton16343.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton16343.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton16343.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton16343.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton16343.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton16343.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000053999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16343"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=16343"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=16343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}