{"id":40960,"date":"2001-08-28T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2001-08-28T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/mejia-says-presidency-has-not-gone-to-his-head\/"},"modified":"2001-08-28T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2001-08-28T01:43:56","slug":"mejia-says-presidency-has-not-gone-to-his-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/08\/28\/mejia-says-presidency-has-not-gone-to-his-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Mejia says Presidency has not gone to his head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Hipolito Mejia said yesterday that he will not change his ways just because he is President. &#147;I am a president, like all of you,&#148; he said at a meeting of his social program ministers at the National Palace.  &#147;I have not wanted the countryside to get out of my head,&#148; he said. &#147;There are people who want me to change, but I was brought up like this and as President, I am not going to change,&#148; he said.  He jested that there are those who want him to buy a wig. &#147;But I don&#146;t like that nor do I like traditional politics, where I say one thing and then do another. I am not going to do that,&#148; he promised. &#147;For the next three years you are going to have to see me as I am because I am not going to change,&#148; he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Hipolito Mejia said yesterday that he will not change his ways just because he is President. &#147;I am a president, like all of you,&#148; he said at a meeting of his social program ministers at the National Palace. &#147;I have not wanted the countryside to get out of my head,&#148; he said. &#147;There are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/08\/28\/mejia-says-presidency-has-not-gone-to-his-head\/\" 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\/40960"}],"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=40960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}