{"id":656760,"date":"2010-02-06T12:17:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T17:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=92047"},"modified":"2010-02-06T12:17:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T17:17:37","slug":"seven-year-old-samba-queen-stirs-controversy-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/656760","title":{"rendered":"Seven-Year-Old Samba Queen Stirs Controversy In Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re calling her the &#8220;Shirley Temple Of Samba,&#8221; but 7-year-old Julia Lira is stirring up controversy in her native Brazil after being christened the coveted Queen in this year&#8217;s Carnival in Rio De Janeiro &#8212; a role traditionally reserved for barely- clad twentysomethings.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/40kPKN_89n4&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>A state agency that defends children\u2019s rights says she\u2019s too young to take on such a sexy gig. But Julia&#8217;s dad insists his little dancer can easily samba through the 80-minute parade route in sweltering temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>After all, she&#8217;s a natural, says Marco Lira.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAny man who looks at a 7-year-old child and feels any sort of excitement should go see a doctor&#8230;.She has the aptitude to be a drum corps queen \u2013 you\u2019ll see it tonight. She has a seriousness inside of her when she is on the stage.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CjQHdGxl6_4jeogS93CNI6ejtfA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CjQHdGxl6_4jeogS93CNI6ejtfA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CjQHdGxl6_4jeogS93CNI6ejtfA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CjQHdGxl6_4jeogS93CNI6ejtfA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re calling her the &#8220;Shirley Temple Of Samba,&#8221; but 7-year-old Julia Lira is stirring up controversy in her native Brazil after being christened the coveted Queen in this year&#8217;s Carnival in Rio De Janeiro &#8212; a role traditionally reserved for barely- clad twentysomethings. A state agency that defends children\u2019s rights says she\u2019s too young to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2KQU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}