{"id":119681,"date":"2018-12-04T16:26:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T16:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=119681"},"modified":"2018-12-12T17:41:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T17:41:32","slug":"new-york-times-focuses-on-samanas-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/12\/04\/new-york-times-focuses-on-samanas-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times focuses on Samana\u2019s heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/St-Peter-Church-Samana-Listin-Diario.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119601\" width=\"600\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/St-Peter-Church-Samana-Listin-Diario.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/St-Peter-Church-Samana-Listin-Diario-300x195.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>St. Peter Church in Saman\u00e1 \/ List\u00edn Diario<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Few traveling to Samana today, where the French migration seems to prevail, are aware of the American heritage that marked the peninsula in the 1800s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A story in The New York Times, reminds all of the mark left in Samana by the group of more than 300 African-Americans who chartered a boat to Samana in 1824 from Philadelphia. The settlers brought their songs and their religion that today is being kept alive by a few descendants and can be experienced with a Sunday visit to La Churcha, the wooden church in Samana city, the capital of the province-peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/30\/travel\/preserving-black-american-history-through-song-in-the-dominican-republic.html\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 December 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few traveling to Samana today, where the French migration seems to prevail, are aware of the American heritage that marked the peninsula in the 1800s. A story in The New York Times, reminds all of the mark left in Samana by the group of more than 300 African-Americans who chartered a boat to Samana in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/12\/04\/new-york-times-focuses-on-samanas-heritage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119997,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119681\/revisions\/119997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}