{"id":20748,"date":"2008-10-07T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/columbus-day-celebrations\/"},"modified":"2008-10-07T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T01:43:56","slug":"columbus-day-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/10\/07\/columbus-day-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Day celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Organizers are preparing a weeklong celebration of the 516th anniversary of Columbus&#8217;s arrival in what is now the DR, and therefore the &#8220;discovery&#8221; of America. The celebrations will conclude at the Columbus Lighthouse monument on 12 October. To mark the celebration, the Columbus&#8217;s tomb will be opened for the public to view on Sunday, 12 October from 11:30am to 4:30pm. During the weeklong celebrations, admission to the Columbus Lighthouse will be free. This year&#8217;s events also include the First Columbus Lighthouse Marathon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organizers are preparing a weeklong celebration of the 516th anniversary of Columbus&#8217;s arrival in what is now the DR, and therefore the &#8220;discovery&#8221; of America. The celebrations will conclude at the Columbus Lighthouse monument on 12 October. To mark the celebration, the Columbus&#8217;s tomb will be opened for the public to view on Sunday, 12 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/10\/07\/columbus-day-celebrations\/\" 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":[227,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20748"}],"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=20748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}