{"id":341,"date":"2014-10-21T09:54:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T11:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/natgeokids.com?p=341"},"modified":"2017-02-22T02:35:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T02:35:22","slug":"dancing-red-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/ie\/kids-club\/entertainment\/general-entertainment\/dancing-red-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Dancer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Car makers Smart have come up with a cool way to make people stop at traffic lights in Lisbon, Portugal &#8211; they&#8217;ve made the red man <em>dance<\/em>!<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 660px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-341-1\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Light-Dancer-Portugal.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Light-Dancer-Portugal.mp4\">http:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Light-Dancer-Portugal.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four traffic lights in the city were rebuilt and connected to a dancing booth where people could slip into the role of the red man &#8211; and bust some serious moves! Through clever technology, their movements were captured and brought to the traffic light to entertain those waiting to cross the road.\u00a0The result? A lot more people stopped until the green man appeared, making the pedestrian crossings safer &#8211; and more fun, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Car makers Smart have come up with a cool way to make people stop at traffic lights in Lisbon, Portugal &#8211; they&#8217;ve made the red man dance! &nbsp; &nbsp; Four traffic lights in the city were rebuilt and connected to a dancing booth where people could slip into the role of the red man &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/ie\/kids-club\/entertainment\/general-entertainment\/dancing-red-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Light Dancer!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[814,815,813],"christmas-category":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-entertainment","tag-inventions","tag-portugal","tag-traffic-lights","countries-australia","countries-ireland","countries-new-zealand","countries-south-africa","countries-united-kingdom"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Light Dancer! - National Geographic Kids<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lisbon welcome a dancing red man to its traffic lights to make road crossings safer - and more entertaining! 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