{"id":43184,"date":"2000-08-23T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2000-08-23T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/no-more-playing-of-national-anthem-at-noon\/"},"modified":"2000-08-23T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2000-08-23T01:43:56","slug":"no-more-playing-of-national-anthem-at-noon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/08\/23\/no-more-playing-of-national-anthem-at-noon\/","title":{"rendered":"No more playing of national anthem at noon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Hip&oacute;lito Mej&iacute;a suspended the decree that had ordered radio stations to play the national anthem at noon. Guido G&oacute;mez Mazara, legal consultant to the President, said that this was on the agenda of commitments the President had made with PRD leader, Jos&eacute; Francisco Pe&ntilde;a G&oacute;mez. On 29 March 1994, in the midst of the presidential election campaign, then President Joaqu&iacute;n Balaguer, who was running for re-election, issued the decree ordering the playing of the national anthem as an appeal to &quot;nationalistic&quot; sentiments of Dominicans. Balaguer sought to capitalize on Pe&ntilde;a G&oacute;mez&#8217;s Haitian heritage in his quest for the presidency that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Hip&oacute;lito Mej&iacute;a suspended the decree that had ordered radio stations to play the national anthem at noon. Guido G&oacute;mez Mazara, legal consultant to the President, said that this was on the agenda of commitments the President had made with PRD leader, Jos&eacute; Francisco Pe&ntilde;a G&oacute;mez. On 29 March 1994, in the midst of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/08\/23\/no-more-playing-of-national-anthem-at-noon\/\" 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\/43184"}],"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=43184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}