{"id":46507,"date":"1999-11-10T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1999-11-10T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/christmas-starts-early\/"},"modified":"1999-11-10T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1999-11-10T01:43:56","slug":"christmas-starts-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/11\/10\/christmas-starts-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas starts early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving isn&#8217;t a big event in Santo Domingo, so stores get ready for Christmas since mid-October. By mid-November, homes and businesses begin set up their Christmas trees and decorative lights, and Christmas is in the air. Christmas means big time partying and Dominicans love a party. December is a month when only day-to-day work gets done. It is not a good time for starting any serious project, unless related to partying. Local traditions include decorating US-style, but also with poinsettias and liana crafts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving isn&#8217;t a big event in Santo Domingo, so stores get ready for Christmas since mid-October. By mid-November, homes and businesses begin set up their Christmas trees and decorative lights, and Christmas is in the air. Christmas means big time partying and Dominicans love a party. December is a month when only day-to-day work gets &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/11\/10\/christmas-starts-early\/\" 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\/46507"}],"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=46507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}