{"id":164906,"date":"2012-02-28T14:16:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T10:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=164906"},"modified":"2012-02-28T14:30:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T10:30:57","slug":"angela-merkel-doused-in-beer-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/28\/angela-merkel-doused-in-beer-video.html","title":{"rendered":"Angela Merkel Doused in Beer (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She attends hundreds of events each year, but there&#8217;s a good chance German Chancellor Angela Merkel will remember this year&#8217;s Ash Wednesday meal, HuffPost reports.<\/p>\n<p>As Merkel settled in at her table, the waiter behind her lost his balance and poured five beers down the Chancellor&#8217;s neck.<\/p>\n<p>21-year-old waiter Martin D. told the German Bild newspaper that a colleague was supposed to serve the German leader, but the woman was so nervous that she asked Martin to do it for her, The Telegraphreports. \u201cI was shoved from behind, and tried to catch the beers, but it was too late,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I shouted \u201cShit!\u201d really loudly,\u201d he added. The waiter&#8217;s visceral reaction is visible in the video above.<\/p>\n<p>Yet according to The Local, Merkel wasn&#8217;t too upset. \u201cShe turned around and grinned at me,&#8221; Martin reportedly explained.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel was giving a speech at an event by the Demmin Christian Democratic Union in her homestate Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UzgyCBVyJVA?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As German Chancellor Angela Merkel settled in at her table, the waiter behind her lost his balance and poured five beers down her neck.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[22437,38698],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}