{"id":10579,"date":"2016-07-22T14:26:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T19:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=10579"},"modified":"2016-07-22T14:26:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T19:26:28","slug":"in-irvington-jersey-city-police-fire-community-join-the-running-man-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/in-irvington-jersey-city-police-fire-community-join-the-running-man-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"In Irvington &#038; Jersey City police, fire &#038; community join the Running Man Challenge!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_10580\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10580\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-22-at-14.58.43-1024x574.jpg\" alt=\"Irvington Fire Fighters dancing\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-22-at-14.58.43-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-22-at-14.58.43-225x126.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-22-at-14.58.43-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-22-at-14.58.43-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-22-at-14.58.43.jpg 1088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Irvington Running Man Challenge video<\/figcaption><\/figure>Irvington&#8217;s video kicks off with a stunning vocal performance by Mayor Vaughn&#8217;s secretary and features crowd scenes of city employees rocking the beat and even breakdancing and performing acrobatic stunts.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YP7qzcK7Ua4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In Jersey City&#8217;s video a police official orders officers to, &#8220;Get in there and dance. Have fun!&#8221; Even the K-9 unit obeys, dancing at the Hudson River&#8217;s edge with New York City for a backdrop. Scenes filmed around the city show its breadth of ethnic and arts diversity. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KWyOWuFLnJk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NJ.com explains how the filming and videos have served as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/essex\/index.ssf\/2016\/07\/irvington_and_jersey_city_police_embrace_running_m.html\">community-police icebreaker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the filming, residents stopped to record the scene with their phones and applaud the officers. On YouTube, 52,000 people have viewed the video, which shows officers looking for the running man. But while on assignment, they start dancing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was an opportunity for the community to see a different side of police, to see that they have fun, even embarrass themselves with dancing, and really enjoying the people they work with,&#8221; said Jennifer Morrill, the (Jersey City) press secretary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irvington&#8217;s video kicks off with a stunning vocal performance by Mayor Vaughn&#8217;s secretary and features crowd scenes of city employees rocking the beat and even breakdancing and performing acrobatic stunts. In Jersey City&#8217;s video a police official orders officers to, &#8220;Get in there and dance. Have fun!&#8221; Even the K-9 unit obeys, dancing at the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/in-irvington-jersey-city-police-fire-community-join-the-running-man-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In Irvington &#038; Jersey City police, fire &#038; community join the Running Man Challenge!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,13,31,5],"tags":[1451,1101,2470],"class_list":["post-10579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-art-culture","category-best-stuff","category-government-trade","tag-dance","tag-police","tag-running-man-challenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10579"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10590,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579\/revisions\/10590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}