{"id":4849,"date":"2016-07-13T19:27:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T11:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/13\/auschwitz-asks-visitors-not-to-play-pokmon-go\/"},"modified":"2016-07-13T19:27:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T11:27:48","slug":"auschwitz-asks-visitors-not-to-play-pokmon-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/13\/auschwitz-asks-visitors-not-to-play-pokmon-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Auschwitz asks visitors not to play &#039;Pok&#233;mon Go&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f143504%2fap_922567857060\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/FevDvYuOIErSbIHW7kH0XASd0Pk=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F143504%2FAP_922567857060.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Auschwitz+asks+visitors+not+to+play+%27Pok%C3%A9mon+Go%27&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F07%2F13%2Fauschwitz-pokemon-go%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F07%2F13%2Fauschwitz-pokemon-go%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Auschwitz Memorial has asked\u00a0<i>Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/i>\u00a0gamers not to play the popular app on its premises, saying it is &#8220;disrespectful&#8221; and &#8220;not appropriate.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The game is now available in Germany, but not elsewhere in Europe. Some users have found a way to download the app outside of the U.S., Australia or New Zealand, where it&#8217;s been available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New York magazine said the person who\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/selectall\/2016\/07\/yes-you-can-catch-pokemon-at-auschwitz.html\" style=\"line-height: 1.5\">reported<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"> the presence of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Pok\u00e9mon in Auschwitz, also noted there was a &#8220;blue square thing&#8221; at the concentration camp, indicating the area is probably a\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Pok\u00e9Stop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">A spokesman for the Auschwitz Memorial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/13\/technology\/where-pokemon-should-not-go.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur\">said<\/a> the presence of the game was &#8220;absolutely inappropriate.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/07\/13\/auschwitz-pokemon-go\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/pokemon-go\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Pokemon Go<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">World<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href='http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?iu=\/6692\/mash.to\/rss&amp;pos=atf&amp;tag=ad&amp;mtype=standard&amp;type=rss&amp;sz=300x250&amp;c=1468408828' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?iu=\/6692\/mash.to\/rss&amp;pos=atf&amp;tag=ad&amp;mtype=standard&amp;type=rss&amp;sz=300x250&amp;c=1468408828'><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/7fbDObsv2m8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Auschwitz Memorial has asked\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon Go\u00a0gamers not to play the popular app on its premises, saying it is &#8220;disrespectful&#8221; and &#8220;not appropriate.&#8221;\u00a0 The game is now available in Germany, but not elsewhere in Europe. Some users have found a way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/13\/auschwitz-asks-visitors-not-to-play-pokmon-go\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3682,1112],"class_list":["post-4849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-pokemon-go","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}