{"id":2578,"date":"2010-02-16T18:10:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T16:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2010-02-16T18:12:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T16:12:29","slug":"samba-queen-julia-lira-raises-adult-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/samba-queen-julia-lira-raises-adult-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Samba Queen Julia Lira Raises Adult Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Julia-lira-rio1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2579\" title=\"Samba Queen Julia Lira Raises Adult Concerns\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Julia-lira-rio1-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Samba Queen Julia Lira Raises Adult Concerns\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>Monica and Marco Lira had joked that, one day, their third-grade daughter would dance her heart out as a drum corps queen in Rio\u2019s annual Carnaval samba competition, which is seen by tens of thousands of paradegoers and millions more television viewers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But then Mr. Lira, the president of one of 12 competing samba troupes, decided to go ahead this year, and put his little Julia at the head of an extravaganza of dancers, floats and drummers, in a sexually charged position usually reserved for bombshell actresses and models.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife said, \u2018You are going to create a problem for yourself, she is 7 years old,\u2019 \u201d Mr. Lira said in an interview late Thursday. \u201cI said, \u2018What problem?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rival samba groups scoffed, saying Julia was too young to provide the \u201csensual\u201d inspiration that leads to winning performances. But child protection advocates took the case more seriously, accusing the samba troupe of child exploitation. Reportedly, it took a judge\u2019s ruling to clear Julia\u2019s path, putting a gap-toothed, pint-sized dancing queen at the head of her 3,200-strong samba school in the hotly disputed samba competition at Rio\u2019s Sambodromo.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monica and Marco Lira had joked that, one day, their third-grade daughter would dance her heart out as a drum corps queen in Rio\u2019s annual Carnaval samba competition, which is seen by tens of thousands of paradegoers and millions more television viewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}