{"id":21218,"date":"2008-11-25T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/paredess-ambitious-goal\/"},"modified":"2008-11-25T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T01:43:56","slug":"paredess-ambitious-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/11\/25\/paredess-ambitious-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Paredes&#8217;s ambitious goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Education Minister Melanio Paredes has announced the ambitious goal of reducing illiteracy in the DR to 0% by 2015. Paredes said that the only thing that frees people is the ability to overcome ignorance. Hoy reports that the DR&#8217;s illiteracy rate currently stands at 11%. Paredes did not provide concrete details about how this goal would be accomplished. In 2008, the DR spent just 2% of its GDP on education. For 2009, Paredes said he would be happy to get 2.5% of the GDP in his budgetary allotment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Minister Melanio Paredes has announced the ambitious goal of reducing illiteracy in the DR to 0% by 2015. Paredes said that the only thing that frees people is the ability to overcome ignorance. Hoy reports that the DR&#8217;s illiteracy rate currently stands at 11%. Paredes did not provide concrete details about how this goal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/11\/25\/paredess-ambitious-goal\/\" 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\/21218"}],"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=21218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}