{"id":1994,"date":"2008-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dominicana-online.org\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2008-02-05T00:58:03","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T20:58:03","slug":"noti649","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/noti649\/","title":{"rendered":"Santiago Holds its First Carnival Parade of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR><br \/>\n<TABLE class=texto width=\"90%\" border=0><br \/>\n<TBODY><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD vAlign=top width=70><IMG class=thinborderfloat1 border=0 alt=Foro src=\"\/Portal\/noticias\/santiago_2008_65.jpg\" width=65 height=66><\/TD><br \/>\n<TD vAlign=top width=7><BR><\/TD><br \/>\n<TD class=texto vAlign=top><STRONG>Santiago Holds its First Carnival Parade of 2008<\/STRONG><BR><BR>Carreras Avenue, in the center of town, was the site Sunday of the first Carnival parade to kick off \u201cSantiago 2008.\u201d As is the custom, the parade was characterized by wildly bright colors and a cheerful crowd to match the happy mood.<BR><BR>Thousands of people gathered in the area of Monumento and Carreras Avenue to see the traditional groups, Los Lechones, or Devils, of Pepines and La Joya whose \u201crivalry\u201d is always a source of entertainment to the spectators. The competition over their playfully mischievous ways and the beauty of their exquisite masks and costumes always attracts and keeps the crowds. This year, the butt of the Devils\u2019 stinging satire was the baseball teams: the Cibae\u00f1a Eagles and the Licey Tigers, the two most popular teams in the country. <BR><BR>At the moment, Santiago happens to be the host of the Caribbean Series which is going on right now, having attracted many outsiders to the city to enjoy their baseball and the fun of Carnival.<br \/>\n<P>&nbsp;<\/P><\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD vAlign=top><\/TD><br \/>\n<TD vAlign=top><\/TD><br \/>\n<TD class=texto vAlign=top align=right>Date of Publication: February, 04 2008 <\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago Holds its First Carnival Parade of 2008Carreras Avenue, in the center of town, was the site Sunday of the first Carnival parade to kick off \u201cSantiago 2008.\u201d As is the custom, the parade was characterized by wildly bright colors and a cheerful crowd to match the happy mood.Thousands of people gathered in the area &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/noti649\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Santiago Holds its First Carnival Parade of 2008&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}