{"id":41701,"date":"2000-01-31T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2000-01-31T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/cardinal-calls-for-better-political-discourse\/"},"modified":"2000-01-31T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2000-01-31T01:43:56","slug":"cardinal-calls-for-better-political-discourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/01\/31\/cardinal-calls-for-better-political-discourse\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal calls for better political discourse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal Nicol&aacute;s Jes&uacute;s L&oacute;pez Rodr&iacute;guez urged Hip&oacute;lito Mej&iacute;a of the PRD and Danilo Medina of the PLD to improve their political discourse, which he described as laden with diatribes and insults. &quot;No one is interested in that kind of talk and in myself it produces a major discomfort,&quot; said the head of the Catholic Church in the DR. He would like the politicians to instead explain to the people their government programs, their solutions to the national problems. &quot;I would like to see the candidates talking of substantial things, with serious arguments, that they be presenting solutions to the nation&#8217;s problems, not to say that this was done or not. The Cardinal spoke on his Sunday talk on the Roman Catholic Church Television Station, Televida, Channel 41.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal Nicol&aacute;s Jes&uacute;s L&oacute;pez Rodr&iacute;guez urged Hip&oacute;lito Mej&iacute;a of the PRD and Danilo Medina of the PLD to improve their political discourse, which he described as laden with diatribes and insults. &quot;No one is interested in that kind of talk and in myself it produces a major discomfort,&quot; said the head of the Catholic Church &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/01\/31\/cardinal-calls-for-better-political-discourse\/\" 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":[13,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41701"}],"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=41701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}