{"id":12863,"date":"2020-02-06T13:47:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T08:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=12863"},"modified":"2020-02-06T13:47:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T08:47:03","slug":"visit-rio-and-get-robbed-brazil-tourism-body-shares-awkward-instagram-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/12863","title":{"rendered":"Visit Rio, and get robbed, Brazil tourism body shares awkward Instagram post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When marketing Rio de Janeiro, Brazil\u2019s national tourism agency typically focuses on the city\u2019s world-class beaches, samba-filled music scene and caipirinha-fueled parties. Violent crime is rarely listed among the attractions.<\/p>\n<p>But in an embarrassing social media snafu this week, the Brazilian Tourist Board (Embratur) accidentally shared a critical Instagram post from a tourist who did not enjoy her stay in the so-called \u201cCidade Maravilhosa,\u201d or Marvelous City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just spent 3 days in Rio with my family, and in those 3 days my family and I were robbed and my 9-year-old sister witnessed a violent robbery,\u201d Instagram user \u201cwithlai\u201d wrote in an Instagram Stories post. \u201cI can\u2019t recommend a visit to a city where I felt afraid of even leaving the apartment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Embratur deleted the shared post on Wednesday. It said in a subsequent statement that \u201csharing (the post) was a mistake,\u201d adding that it had worked hard to promote a nationwide fall in crime in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When marketing Rio de Janeiro, Brazil\u2019s national tourism agency typically focuses on the city\u2019s world-class beaches, samba-filled music scene and caipirinha-fueled parties. Violent crime is rarely listed among the attractions. But in an embarrassing social media snafu this week, the Brazilian Tourist Board (Embratur) accidentally shared a critical Instagram post from a tourist who did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12865,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12863\/revisions\/12865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}