{"id":165272,"date":"2021-09-23T08:13:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T12:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=165272"},"modified":"2021-09-23T08:45:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T12:45:50","slug":"friday-is-a-holiday-in-the-dominican-republic-dia-de-las-mercedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/09\/23\/friday-is-a-holiday-in-the-dominican-republic-dia-de-las-mercedes\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday is a holiday in the Dominican Republic: Dia de las Mercedes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Virgen-de-las-Mercedes-Facebook-MIREX.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-165296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Virgen-de-las-Mercedes-Facebook-MIREX.jpg 267w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Virgen-de-las-Mercedes-Facebook-MIREX-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, 24 September 2021, Dominicans honor Our Lady of Mercy (Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de las Mercedes). The Roman Catholic Church holiday is observed nationwide. Given that the holiday falls on a Friday, it will become a long weekend for many. Plan for traffic congestion for those exiting and returning to the main cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Devote Catholics celebrate the day making the pilgrimage to the Santo Cerro hilltop shrine in La Vega province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Lady of Mercy is regarded as the patron saint of the Dominican people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/destacado\/historia-de-la-virgen-de-las-mercedes-entre-los-dominicanos\/\">El Caribe <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 September 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, 24 September 2021, Dominicans honor Our Lady of Mercy (Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de las Mercedes). The Roman Catholic Church holiday is observed nationwide. Given that the holiday falls on a Friday, it will become a long weekend for many. Plan for traffic congestion for those exiting and returning to the main cities. Devote Catholics &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/09\/23\/friday-is-a-holiday-in-the-dominican-republic-dia-de-las-mercedes\/\" 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\/165272"}],"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=165272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165297,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165272\/revisions\/165297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}