{"id":79025,"date":"2016-07-24T00:43:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T04:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=79025"},"modified":"2016-07-24T00:43:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T04:43:26","slug":"canadian-teens-detained-pokemon-go-border-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/07\/24\/canadian-teens-detained-pokemon-go-border-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian teens detained for Pokemon Go border crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_79026\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79026\" style=\"width: 1275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pokemon-Go-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79026\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pokemon-Go-1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Pokemon Go. (Photo by Ana Verrusio\/Pixabay)\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pokemon-Go-1.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pokemon-Go-1-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pokemon-Go-1-768x785.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pokemon-Go-1-1002x1024.jpg 1002w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO: Pokemon Go. (Photo by<a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/users\/AnaBanana413-319325\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Ana Verrusio\/Pixabay<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>HELENA, Mont.\u2014U.S. Border Patrol officials say two Canadian teenagers were briefly apprehended after they accidentally crossed the U.S. border into Montana while playing the game \u201cPokemon Go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Border Patrol Agent John South says the teens were engrossed and wandered into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>South says agents detained them while contacting their mother, who was nearby on the Canadian side.<\/p>\n<p>The agents then released the children to their mother.<\/p>\n<p>South on Friday declined to release the teenagers&#8217; names, ages or describe what sort of terrain they crossed.<\/p>\n<p>He says they were detained Thursday near Sweet Grass, Montana, which borders the town of Coutts in Canada&#8217;s Alberta province.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPokemon Go\u201d is a game in which players go to different locations to find virtual characters that appear on their cellphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HELENA, Mont.\u2014U.S. Border Patrol officials say two Canadian teenagers were briefly apprehended after they accidentally crossed the U.S. border into &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}