{"id":3016,"date":"2003-01-24T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2003-01-24T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/president-mejia-optimistic-about-pan-am-games\/"},"modified":"2003-01-24T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2003-01-24T01:43:56","slug":"president-mejia-optimistic-about-pan-am-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/01\/24\/president-mejia-optimistic-about-pan-am-games\/","title":{"rendered":"President Mejia optimistic about Pan Am Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>?The sovereign bonds are here,? said President Hipolito Mejia to a Cadena de Noticia reporter?s question regarding whether the Games cost more than budgeted and whether he will cover any discrepancy. As reported in El Caribe, the President said: ?If more money is needed, there will be more money.? Meanwhile, the newspaper reports that a meeting between the Organizing Committee and President Mejia was cancelled. Maintaining his enthusiasm, Mejia forecast a repeat of the successes of Dominican competitors in the Central American &amp; Caribbean Games in El Salvador. He said that many people are going to have to hold their tongues.  The pessimists, he said, will not have to throw themselves over a bridge, but will suffer embarrassment for having partaken in such absurd anti-games campaigns.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>?The sovereign bonds are here,? said President Hipolito Mejia to a Cadena de Noticia reporter?s question regarding whether the Games cost more than budgeted and whether he will cover any discrepancy. As reported in El Caribe, the President said: ?If more money is needed, there will be more money.? Meanwhile, the newspaper reports that a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/01\/24\/president-mejia-optimistic-about-pan-am-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016"}],"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=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}