{"id":3210,"date":"2014-05-07T09:49:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T15:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2014-05-25T17:13:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T23:13:57","slug":"scorpions-drummer-james-kottak-returns-to-u-s-after-dubai-jail-stint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/?p=3210","title":{"rendered":"SCORPIONS Drummer JAMES KOTTAK Returns To U.S. After Dubai Jail Stint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/fbexternal-a.akamaihd.net\/safe_image.php?d=AQDrVoAGbHKpxR4E&amp;w=470&amp;h=246&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.espressonews.gr%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Ffield%2Fimage%2F43345647347.jpg&amp;cfs=1&amp;upscale&amp;sx=7&amp;sy=0&amp;sw=615&amp;sh=322\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>German hard rock veterans SCORPIONS have confirmed that their American drummer, James Kottak, arrived in the U.S. last night after spending a month in a Dubai, United Arab Emirates jail for insulting Islam. The band added in a statement posted on Facebook: &#8220;[James] will have to find the time to sort out his problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dear fans, at this point we want to hear personally from James what happened in Dubai&#8230;we let you know\u2026Hopefully there will be better days &#8230;.. Scorpions<\/p>\n<p>For SCORPIONS&#8217; recent concerts in Germany, Swedish drummer Johan Franzon filled in for Kottak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German hard rock veterans SCORPIONS have confirmed that their American drummer, James Kottak, arrived in the U.S. last night after spending a month in a Dubai, United Arab Emirates jail for insulting Islam. The band added in a statement posted on Facebook: &#8220;[James] will have to find the time to sort out his problems.&#8221; Dear [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3225,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions\/3225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}