{"id":42656,"date":"2000-06-06T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2000-06-06T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/dr-has-its-day-at-german-world-fair\/"},"modified":"2000-06-06T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2000-06-06T01:43:56","slug":"dr-has-its-day-at-german-world-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/06\/06\/dr-has-its-day-at-german-world-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"DR has its day at German World Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Republic opened the special days dedicated to the 189 countries that are participating in the Expo 2000 World Fair of Hanover, Germany. Merengue music drew the attention of the thousands that visited the fair yesterday. Sistema Temperado opened the Dominican show with Compadre Pedro Juan merengue. Immediately, those present broke the protocol of the event to dance to the beat of the catchy tune. In the evening, Josefina Mini&ntilde;o&#8217;s folklore ballet taught Germans and fair visitors how merengue is best danced. Technical Secretary of the Presidency Tem&iacute;stocles Mont&aacute;s and Minister of Tourism Felix Jim&eacute;nez head the Dominican delegation to the fair. The Dominican government reportedly invested US$725,000 in the 300-square meter exhibition that will be open for the next five months at Pavilion 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Republic opened the special days dedicated to the 189 countries that are participating in the Expo 2000 World Fair of Hanover, Germany. Merengue music drew the attention of the thousands that visited the fair yesterday. Sistema Temperado opened the Dominican show with Compadre Pedro Juan merengue. Immediately, those present broke the protocol of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/06\/06\/dr-has-its-day-at-german-world-fair\/\" 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\/42656"}],"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=42656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}