{"id":156203,"date":"2021-04-12T06:05:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T10:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=156203"},"modified":"2021-04-12T10:02:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T14:02:51","slug":"marcio-veloz-maggiolo-passes-away-he-was-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/04\/12\/marcio-veloz-maggiolo-passes-away-he-was-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcio Veloz Maggiolo passes away, he was 85"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Marcio-Veloz-Twitter-1024x866.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-156260\" width=\"301\" height=\"253\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Award-winning essayist, novelist, poet, archeologist, anthropologist, university professor and diplomat, Mario Veloz Maggiolo died on Saturday, 10 April 2021. He was 85 and died of health complications attributed to Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was one of the first Dominicans to graduate in archeology from the University of Madrid. He also received a PhD in history of the Americas, with a specialty in pre-historic days from that university. He would go on to be the director of the Museum of Dominican Man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He won numerous national and international awards, including the National Literature Award, the Golden Caonabo and the Academy of Sciences. As an archeologist, he conducted several investigations on the Dominican Republic&#8217;s and other Antillean countries&#8217; pre-Columbian cultures. As an antropologist, he published several important research papers on different cultural manifestations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2021\/04\/10\/665251\/murio-el-escritor-dominicano-marcio-veloz-maggiolo\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2021\/04\/10\/665258\/marcio-veloz-maggiolo-se-ha-marchado-nuestra-pluma-mayor\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 April 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning essayist, novelist, poet, archeologist, anthropologist, university professor and diplomat, Mario Veloz Maggiolo died on Saturday, 10 April 2021. He was 85 and died of health complications attributed to Covid-19. He was one of the first Dominicans to graduate in archeology from the University of Madrid. He also received a PhD in history of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/04\/12\/marcio-veloz-maggiolo-passes-away-he-was-85\/\" 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":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156203"}],"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=156203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156261,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156203\/revisions\/156261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}