{"id":46888,"date":"1998-01-06T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1998-01-06T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/torrential-rains-affect-northwest\/"},"modified":"1998-01-06T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1998-01-06T01:43:56","slug":"torrential-rains-affect-northwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/01\/06\/torrential-rains-affect-northwest\/","title":{"rendered":"Torrential rains affect Northwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Torrential rains over Thursday, 1 January, and Friday, 2 January, caused floods in the northwest, affecting crops and housing. Reports are that over 200 families have lost their homes, and a 12-year old boy died in a landslide, when a wall of his dwelling caved in. The Santiago-Sosua highway was affected by landslides in several areas of the highway, revealing construction defects. Preliminary reports estimate losses to agriculture at RD$1,000 million. On the positive side, it is expected that the hydroelectric power plants will be able to increase their contribution to the electricity network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Torrential rains over Thursday, 1 January, and Friday, 2 January, caused floods in the northwest, affecting crops and housing. Reports are that over 200 families have lost their homes, and a 12-year old boy died in a landslide, when a wall of his dwelling caved in. The Santiago-Sosua highway was affected by landslides in several &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/01\/06\/torrential-rains-affect-northwest\/\" 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":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46888"}],"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=46888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}