{"id":139747,"date":"2018-06-11T20:45:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T20:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/catalan-village-women-vote-for-topless-bathing-after-row-at-pool\/"},"modified":"2018-06-11T20:45:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T20:45:32","slug":"catalan-village-women-vote-for-topless-bathing-after-row-at-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/catalan-village-women-vote-for-topless-bathing-after-row-at-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalan village women vote for topless bathing after row at pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Website for vote on topless bathing\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/18535\/production\/_101973699_45962073-9769-4387-8840-79007819db5e.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Screenshot\/vote                                                    <\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">The women in a village near Barcelona have voted to go topless in public swimming pools, scrapping a local ban.<\/p>\n<p>The vote in L&#039;Ametlla del Vall\u00e8s went 61% for topless bathing, 39% against. <\/p>\n<p>The Catalan local authority organised the vote - whose result is legally binding - for women aged 16 and above, and 379 took part.<\/p>\n<p>Women pressed for the vote after police turned up at one of the pools last summer and ordered two women to put on their bikini tops. <\/p>\n<p>A lifeguard had reported them to the police.<\/p>\n<p>The case prompted an original protest by villagers supporting the women: bathers - women and men - went to the pool wearing bikini tops on which they had drawn nipples.<\/p>\n<p>The village of 8,000 inhabitants is 35km (22 miles) north of Barcelona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Screenshot\/vote The women in a village near Barcelona have voted to go topless in public swimming pools, scrapping a local ban. The vote in L&#039;Ametlla del Vall\u00e8s went<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}