{"id":43468,"date":"2000-10-02T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2000-10-02T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/pan-ams-not-a-priority-but-dr-is-committed\/"},"modified":"2000-10-02T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2000-10-02T01:43:56","slug":"pan-ams-not-a-priority-but-dr-is-committed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/10\/02\/pan-ams-not-a-priority-but-dr-is-committed\/","title":{"rendered":"Pan Ams not a priority, but DR is committed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Hip&oacute;lito Mej&iacute;a said that the Santo Domingo 2003 Pan Am Games are not a national priority. But the President said he had given his word and would deliver. He spoke when interviewed while attending a horse race competition at the V Centenario Race Track on Saturday. The Mej&iacute;a government recently advanced US$25 million as a guarantee that Santo Domingo would host the games. Mej&iacute;a said that the government is counting on a soft loan from a Spanish bank and another from Venezuela to build the Olympic Village and sports installations. &quot;I have said there cannot be austerity for sports, nor will be there. Within our possibilities, this government will increase the budget of the Ministry of Sports,&quot; said President Mej&iacute;a.  The Ministry has requested a budget of RD$810 million for 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Hip&oacute;lito Mej&iacute;a said that the Santo Domingo 2003 Pan Am Games are not a national priority. But the President said he had given his word and would deliver. He spoke when interviewed while attending a horse race competition at the V Centenario Race Track on Saturday. The Mej&iacute;a government recently advanced US$25 million as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/10\/02\/pan-ams-not-a-priority-but-dr-is-committed\/\" 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\/43468"}],"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=43468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}