{"id":125253,"date":"2019-04-16T12:11:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T12:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=125253"},"modified":"2019-04-16T12:11:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T12:11:29","slug":"courts-to-close-on-wednesday-politicians-to-take-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/04\/16\/courts-to-close-on-wednesday-politicians-to-take-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Courts to close on Wednesday, politicians to take a break"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On occasion of the Easter Week holiday, the national court system will be closed starting on Wednesday, 17 April 2019. Schools have been out since Friday, 12 April and classes don\u2019t resume until 22 or 23 April. Many resorts and mountain destination lodgings report being fully booked. Meanwhile, thousands choose to remain in the cities to avoid the intense traffic. Shopping gets a boost, and the media compares the Easter Week holiday to Christmas, Back to School, and Mother\u2019s Day buying sprees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise, the intense electoral campaigning of those who aspire to be candidates in the 2020 general elections is expected to come to a halt during Easter, giving all a break from the illegal and premature campaigning. Media reports are that the two biggest campaigners, the followers of President Danilo Medina and those of former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez will be campaigning in New York City during the holiday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/opinion\/de-buena-tinta\/la-no-campana-se-muda-a-nueva-york-KA12564493\">Diario\u00a0Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 April 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On occasion of the Easter Week holiday, the national court system will be closed starting on Wednesday, 17 April 2019. Schools have been out since Friday, 12 April and classes don\u2019t resume until 22 or 23 April. Many resorts and mountain destination lodgings report being fully booked. Meanwhile, thousands choose to remain in the cities &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/04\/16\/courts-to-close-on-wednesday-politicians-to-take-a-break\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125253"}],"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=125253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125254,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125253\/revisions\/125254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}