{"id":58431,"date":"2014-11-04T19:54:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T19:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=58431"},"modified":"2014-11-04T19:54:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T19:54:29","slug":"us1000-lunch-with-leonel-provokes-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/11\/04\/us1000-lunch-with-leonel-provokes-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"US$1,000 lunch with Leonel provokes controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Social media is full of comments criticizing the US$1,000 per person luncheon talk-interview that former President Leonel Fernandez is giving at the Embassy Suites Hotel on Av. Tiradentes in Santo Domingo tomorrow, Wednesday, 5 November 2014. Acento.com.do reports that a group of young people is organizing a protest against the former President. <\/p>\n<p> The talk-interview is being organized by Funglode, the former President&#8217;s think tank, and is sponsored by the Grupo Estrategico Empresarial made up of the Cibao International Airport, Sociedad Industrial Dominicana (SID), Coastal, ARS Humano, Grupo Estrella and Mercado Media Network. <\/p>\n<p> Polls show that Fernandez is the strongest pre-candidate for the PLD ticket into the 2016 presidential election. <\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/acento.com.do\/2014\/politica\/8191464-grupo-convoca-a-protesta-contra-leonel-fernandez-con-motivo-de-su-charla-entrevista-de-los-us1000\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media is full of comments criticizing the US$1,000 per person luncheon talk-interview that former President Leonel Fernandez is giving at the Embassy Suites Hotel on Av. Tiradentes in Santo Domingo tomorrow, Wednesday, 5 November 2014. Acento.com.do reports that a group of young people is organizing a protest against the former President. The talk-interview is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/11\/04\/us1000-lunch-with-leonel-provokes-controversy\/\" 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58431"}],"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=58431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}