{"id":44179,"date":"1999-01-13T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1999-01-13T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/state-pensions-for-sports-greats\/"},"modified":"1999-01-13T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1999-01-13T01:43:56","slug":"state-pensions-for-sports-greats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/01\/13\/state-pensions-for-sports-greats\/","title":{"rendered":"State pensions for sports greats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Fern?ndez sent to Congress yesterday a bill that would create a system of state pensions for Dominican sports stars &quot;who given the Dominican Republic a good name.&quot; Stars that have been elected to the Dominican Sports Hall of Fame would receive RD$6,000 monthly from the state; those no yet in the Hall of Fame but which have brought honor to the Dominican Republic, would receive RD$3,000 per month. Sports Minister Juan Marichal, himself a Hall of Fame name, proposed the bill to the President after numerous news stories over the past year about how many Hall of Fame members and other well-regarded sports stars of the past live now in dire economic straits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Fern?ndez sent to Congress yesterday a bill that would create a system of state pensions for Dominican sports stars &quot;who given the Dominican Republic a good name.&quot; Stars that have been elected to the Dominican Sports Hall of Fame would receive RD$6,000 monthly from the state; those no yet in the Hall of Fame &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/01\/13\/state-pensions-for-sports-greats\/\" 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":[12,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44179"}],"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=44179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}