{"id":40868,"date":"2001-08-14T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2001-08-14T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/president-mejia-receives-felix-sanchez\/"},"modified":"2001-08-14T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2001-08-14T01:43:56","slug":"president-mejia-receives-felix-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/08\/14\/president-mejia-receives-felix-sanchez\/","title":{"rendered":"President Mejia receives Felix Sanchez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Felix Sanchez was received as a national hero upon arriving in Santo Domingo yesterday morning after winning a gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Canada. Shortly after, he met President Hipolito Mejia at the National Palace. Sanchez placed his gold medal around President Mejia&#146;s neck. Sanchez is the holder of the 10th best time ever made in the 400-meter hurdles, 47.49 seconds. He leaves today to participate in several international competitions in Europe, Japan and Australia, including the Sydney Good Will Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felix Sanchez was received as a national hero upon arriving in Santo Domingo yesterday morning after winning a gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Canada. Shortly after, he met President Hipolito Mejia at the National Palace. Sanchez placed his gold medal around President Mejia&#146;s neck. Sanchez is the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/08\/14\/president-mejia-receives-felix-sanchez\/\" 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":[16,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40868"}],"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=40868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}