{"id":27918,"date":"2023-01-01T13:35:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T13:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=27918"},"modified":"2023-01-01T13:35:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T13:35:50","slug":"happy-new-year-thousands-throng-times-square-to-witness-crystal-ball-drop-on-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/27918","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year! Thousands throng Times Square to witness crystal ball drop on 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>New Year: New Yorkers and visitors from across the world thronged to Times Square, the New York&#8217;s landmark and liveliest area to wellcome 2023, and\u00a0 witness spectacular yet time-honored crystal ball drop event.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Thousands of people flocked to Times Square to watch the historic ball drop tradition at 12 o&#8217;clock in the night at the New Year ceremony.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG-20230101-WA0017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG-20230101-WA0017-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG-20230101-WA0017-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG-20230101-WA0017-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG-20230101-WA0017-390x220.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG-20230101-WA0017.jpg 838w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The crystal ball, 12 feet wide and weighing 11 thousand pounds, was brought down from 130 feet high pole.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A magnificent lightshow was kicked off by New York City Mayor Eric Adams who started the ball drop that took place for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2019.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As per media reports, the ball comprised of nearly 2,700 Waterford crystals illuminated by a palette of more than 16 million color. As the ball lit up, crowds danced in the new year many stealing a kiss from loved ones at midnight. Heaving crowds danced and swapped masks for rain ponchos as they flooded the Times Square venue.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG-20230101-WA0016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27921\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG-20230101-WA0016-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG-20230101-WA0016-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG-20230101-WA0016-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG-20230101-WA0016.jpg 838w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The New Year celebration that started from New Zealand has ended spreading joy in different countries.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Spectacular fireworks were also conducted and sky was filled with rainbow colors everywhere in the city.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">People in Times Square greeted each other enthusiastically for the New Year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fireworks were also set off by citizens in different areas of New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Year: New Yorkers and visitors from across the world thronged to Times Square, the New York&#8217;s landmark and liveliest area to wellcome 2023, and\u00a0 witness spectacular yet time-honored crystal ball drop event. Thousands of people flocked to Times Square to watch the historic ball drop tradition at 12 o&#8217;clock in the night at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27918","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=27918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27922,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27918\/revisions\/27922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}