{"id":48929,"date":"1998-12-10T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1998-12-10T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/sammy-sosa-visits-white-house\/"},"modified":"1998-12-10T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1998-12-10T01:43:56","slug":"sammy-sosa-visits-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/12\/10\/sammy-sosa-visits-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Sosa visits White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican home run king and the National League&#8217;s Most Valuable Player (MVP) Sammy Sosa met last night with President Bill Clinton. Sosa and his wife Sonia met with President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton briefly. They then joined other honored guests for the annual ceremony where the nation&#8217;s official Christmas Tree is lit by the President on the grounds outside the White House known as the Ellipse. Also attending were famous singers Leona Mitchell, Jos&eacute; Feliciano and Tony Bennett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican home run king and the National League&#8217;s Most Valuable Player (MVP) Sammy Sosa met last night with President Bill Clinton. Sosa and his wife Sonia met with President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton briefly. They then joined other honored guests for the annual ceremony where the nation&#8217;s official Christmas Tree is lit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/12\/10\/sammy-sosa-visits-white-house\/\" 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\/48929"}],"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=48929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}