{"id":15657,"date":"2020-04-17T17:06:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/?p=15657"},"modified":"2020-04-27T19:51:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T19:51:32","slug":"cultura-anuncia-posposicion-de-la-feria-internacional-del-libro-y-la-cultura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/cultura-anuncia-posposicion-de-la-feria-internacional-del-libro-y-la-cultura\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Culture Announces Postponement of the International Culture and Book Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Minister of Culture, Architect Eduardo Selman, said the postponement decision was made after receiving instructions from President Danilo Medina, due to the emergency measures introduced to combat the Coronavirus (COVID-19).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Santo Domingo, April 17, 2020 \u2013 <\/strong>Minister of Culture Eduardo Selman formally announced the postponement of Santo Domingo\u00b4s 2020 23rd International Culture and Book Fair, scheduled to be held from April 24 to May 3 in the country\u00b4s capital city.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to postpone the Fair was made after President Medina explained in his national televised speech on March 17 on the emergency measures that were to be introduced in the country in order to confront the spread of the virus. \u00a0The new date for the traditional literary and cultural event has not been announced by the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are truly sorry that we have to postpone this traditional cultural and literary event that we were so enthusiastically planning,\u201d expressed Minister Selman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI encourage all Dominicans, especially our artists and cultural sector, to listen and support the measures adopted by the Government, in order to stop the spread of this mortal virus and that its spread brings even more devastation to our population,\u201d explained the country\u00b4s Cultural Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Santo Domingo\u00b4s Culture and Book Fair is organized by the Fair\u00b4s General Directorate. \u00a0This year event will be held in honor of Dominican writers Camila Henr\u00edquez Ure\u00f1a and Abiga\u00edl Mej\u00eda, for their contributions to the country\u00b4s literary and cultural development.<\/p>\n<p>The Central American nation of Honduras is the Fair\u00b4s invited Guest of Honor.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Culture, Architect Eduardo Selman, said the postponement decision was made after receiving instructions from President Danilo Medina, due to the emergency measures introduced to combat the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Santo Domingo, April 17, 2020 \u2013 Minister of Culture Eduardo Selman formally announced the postponement of Santo Domingo\u00b4s 2020 23rd International Culture and Book Fair, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/cultura-anuncia-posposicion-de-la-feria-internacional-del-libro-y-la-cultura\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ministry of Culture Announces Postponement of the International Culture and Book Fair&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15663,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657\/revisions\/15663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}