{"id":50452,"date":"2001-07-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-07-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/merengue-festival-18-29-july-3\/"},"modified":"2001-07-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-07-10T00:00:00","slug":"merengue-festival-18-29-july-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/07\/10\/merengue-festival-18-29-july-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Merengue Festival: 18-29 July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Tourism announced the celebration of the Merengue Festival. The event will take place 18-29 July. The inaugural event is set for Wednesday, 18 at the Palacio Bellas Artes at 8 pm. That evening, several &#147;perico ripiao&#148; music groups will play in the west gardens of the Palacio Bellas Artes.  Following that event, a folklore show will be held at the National Theater with the presentation of the National Folklore Ballet and the Los Congos de Villa Mella. Simultaneous, merengue related performances are scheduled:  Plaza Abraham Lincoln (Police orchestra);  Plaza San Miguel (Army orchestra);  Plaza Colon (Armed Forces orchestra)  Parque Avenida Venezuela, Ensanche Ozama (Navy orchestra). The Malecon boulevard celebrations will start at 9 pm and traffic will be closed off.  There will be a fireworks show at Plaza Juan Baron of the Malecon, in front of the Eugenio Maria de Hostos Park. (10 July 2001)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Tourism announced the celebration of the Merengue Festival. The event will take place 18-29 July. The inaugural event is set for Wednesday, 18 at the Palacio Bellas Artes at 8 pm. That evening, several &#147;perico ripiao&#148; music groups will play in the west gardens of the Palacio Bellas Artes. Following that event, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/07\/10\/merengue-festival-18-29-july-3\/\" 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":[17,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50452"}],"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=50452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}