{"id":5297,"date":"2025-07-18T11:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/5297\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:09:08","slug":"slam-dunk-to-slammer-man-arrested-for-throwing-basketballs-at-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/5297\/","title":{"rendered":"Slam Dunk to Slammer: Man Arrested for Throwing Basketballs at Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/rnc-royal-newfoundland-constabulary-3.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Slam Dunk to Slammer: Man Arrested for Throwing Basketballs at Traffic\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A dodgy-looking man ran afoul of the law after throwing a basketball at traffic in the east end of St. John\u2019s yesterday morning. <\/p>\n<p>The bizarre incident happened at about 9:00. <\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old was charged by the RNC with property damage and breach of a release order. He spent the night in the lockup. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A dodgy-looking man ran afoul of the law after throwing a basketball at traffic in the east&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-5297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}