{"id":17605,"date":"2007-11-07T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/customs-director-seriously-ill\/"},"modified":"2007-11-07T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T01:43:56","slug":"customs-director-seriously-ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2007\/11\/07\/customs-director-seriously-ill\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs director seriously ill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Miguel Cocco, the director of the Customs Department, is fighting a battle against cancer, and is currently in a serious condition at the CEDIMAT medical center in Santo Domingo. First reports were that he entered the clinic with &#8220;indigestion&#8221;, but this was quickly diagnosed as being heart-related. The high-ranking PLD member was fitted with a pacemaker and given dialysis for his on-going kidney problems. Cocco has had two bone marrow transplants and has been undergoing dialysis for nine years due to chronic kidney disease. Doctors are monitoring his progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miguel Cocco, the director of the Customs Department, is fighting a battle against cancer, and is currently in a serious condition at the CEDIMAT medical center in Santo Domingo. First reports were that he entered the clinic with &#8220;indigestion&#8221;, but this was quickly diagnosed as being heart-related. The high-ranking PLD member was fitted with a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2007\/11\/07\/customs-director-seriously-ill\/\" 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":[226,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17605"}],"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=17605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}