{"id":50999,"date":"2004-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/cold-weather-encourages-travel\/"},"modified":"2004-01-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-27T00:00:00","slug":"cold-weather-encourages-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2004\/01\/27\/cold-weather-encourages-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold weather encourages travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal Gazette reporter Janet Bagnall focuses on travel to the Dominican Republic during the current deep freeze that has beset Canada&#8217;s East Coast. &#8220;When it&#8217;s this frigid outside, it&#8217;s time to escape and head south for sun and fun,&#8221; reads the column, listing the DR high up among its tips for last-minute getaways. &#8220;The Dominican Republic, with its wonderful beaches and hot sun, is a favourite winter destination of Montrealers. It may cost less than you think to lounge on a beach.&#8221; Reporting on Dominican vacations that are available to those booking at the last minute, she writes: &#8220;Shifting back to the Caribbean islands, we decided the Dominican Republic was stunning, safe and interesting.&#8221; Bagnall cites a deluxe resort offering a special price of less than $1,200 per person for one week, found with the help of a travel agent. &#8220;You have about 60 seconds to make up your minds,&#8221; the agent said. &#8220;This one is moving fast.&#8221; To read the complete story, see<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.canada.com\/montreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal Gazette reporter Janet Bagnall focuses on travel to the Dominican Republic during the current deep freeze that has beset Canada&#8217;s East Coast. &#8220;When it&#8217;s this frigid outside, it&#8217;s time to escape and head south for sun and fun,&#8221; reads the column, listing the DR high up among its tips for last-minute getaways. &#8220;The Dominican &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2004\/01\/27\/cold-weather-encourages-travel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,236,3,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50999"}],"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=50999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}