{"id":26935,"date":"2010-08-06T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/two-popular-musicians-vie-for-haiti\/"},"modified":"2010-08-06T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T01:43:56","slug":"two-popular-musicians-vie-for-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2010\/08\/06\/two-popular-musicians-vie-for-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Two popular musicians vie for Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Eight candidates have put themselves forward for the Presidency of Haiti, including two very popular musicians. One of them is the world famous Wyclef Jean, a winner of three Grammys and a good-will ambassador for Haiti. The other is his friend and popular local singer Michel Martelly, &#8220;Sweet Micky&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p> The Presidential elections will be held on 28 November. Other candidates include Jean Hector Anacacis, Jacques-Edouard Alexis and Charles-Henri Baker. Election observers began to arrive in Port-au-Prince yesterday. Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean officially registered his candidacy at the headquarters of the Provisional Electoral Council yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight candidates have put themselves forward for the Presidency of Haiti, including two very popular musicians. One of them is the world famous Wyclef Jean, a winner of three Grammys and a good-will ambassador for Haiti. The other is his friend and popular local singer Michel Martelly, &#8220;Sweet Micky&#8221;. The Presidential elections will be held &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2010\/08\/06\/two-popular-musicians-vie-for-haiti\/\" 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":[229,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26935"}],"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=26935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}