{"id":55160,"date":"2014-07-09T18:55:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T18:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=55160"},"modified":"2014-07-09T18:55:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T18:55:31","slug":"president-medina-asked-to-support-merengue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/07\/09\/president-medina-asked-to-support-merengue\/","title":{"rendered":"President Medina asked to support merengue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Dominican merengue musicians and singers visited the Presidential Palace yesterday, Tuesday 9 July 2014 and met with President Danilo Medina to discuss merengue and how to preserve it and ensure that everyone knows it is a country brand for the Dominican Republic. <\/p>\n<p> The President hosted merengue stars Johnny Ventura, Kinito Mendez, Rafa Rosario, Hector Acosta (El Torito), Juan de Dios (Jandy) Ventura, Roberto del Castillo and Maridalia Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p> Also present at the meeting were the Deputy Minister for Culture Tommy Garcia, the head of the Ministerial Culture Cabinet Carlos Salcedo and musical arranger Manuel Tejada.<\/p>\n<p> After the meeting, Johnny Ventura said that they had exchanged ideas about ways of promoting and protecting merengue. <\/p>\n<p> Read more in Spanish: http:\/\/presidencia.gob.do\/comunicados\/presidente-medina-recibe-numerosos-artistas-en-su-despacho-palacio-nacional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican merengue musicians and singers visited the Presidential Palace yesterday, Tuesday 9 July 2014 and met with President Danilo Medina to discuss merengue and how to preserve it and ensure that everyone knows it is a country brand for the Dominican Republic. The President hosted merengue stars Johnny Ventura, Kinito Mendez, Rafa Rosario, Hector Acosta &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/07\/09\/president-medina-asked-to-support-merengue\/\" 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":[233,3],"tags":[96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55160"}],"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=55160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}