{"id":668407,"date":"2026-07-01T18:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668407\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:28:08","slug":"two-people-climb-to-top-of-nycs-empire-state-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668407\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people climb to top of NYC&#8217;s Empire State Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two people climbed to the top of New York&#8217;s Empire State Building on Wednesday and unfurled  a large banner appearing to say:  &#8220;When the power of love beats the love of power the world knows peace&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After standing at the very top of the famous building&#8217;s spire together, they climbed down to a small platform, where one appeared to get down on one knee and propose marriage to the other.  They then kissed before continuing to descend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were atop the 1,454 ft (443 m)building for at least ten minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The New York Police Department told the BBC the two individuals have been taken into custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people climbed to the top of New York&#8217;s Empire State Building on Wednesday and unfurled a large&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-668407","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}