{"id":19114,"date":"2014-08-23T10:47:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T17:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19114"},"modified":"2014-08-23T10:47:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T17:47:05","slug":"ali-karimi-takes-on-ice-bucket-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/08\/23\/ali-karimi-takes-on-ice-bucket-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Karimi takes on Ice Bucket Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Iranian international and Bayern Munich midfielder Ali Karimi took on the Ice Bucket Challenge and posted the video on his Instagram on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Asian Maradona, who recently hung up his boots, nominated Persepolis coach Ali Daei, film director and actor Reza Attaran and pop singer Maziar Fallahi to be next up.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge, which was born in Massachusetts, comes from the former Boston College baseball player Pete Frates.<\/p>\n<p>Frates was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig&#8217;s disease, in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, is an activity involving dumping a bucket of ice water on one&#8217;s head to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and encourage donations to research<\/p>\n<p>If accepted, a bucket of ice water is dumped over the person&#8217;s head and if rejected a fee of $100 must be paid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Iranian international and Bayern Munich midfielder Ali Karimi took on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":14695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news"],"views":5182,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}