{"id":86154,"date":"2013-02-21T11:54:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T15:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=86154"},"modified":"2013-02-21T11:54:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T15:54:41","slug":"dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/just-dennis\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: A nature island without a nature festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-69216\" alt=\"Dennis TDN\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dennis-TDN.jpg\" width=\"142\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dennis-TDN.jpg 193w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dennis-TDN-99x150.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/>On a particular day some years ago I sat with Mr. Sheridan Gregoire then Head of the National Development Corporation at his invitation in the office of then PM Edison James to discuss funding for the proposed World Creole Music Festival.\u00a0 We knew that if the government did not come in with the money then the idea would die.\u00a0 It needed visionary leadership and that day stood out for Waitikubuli when Edison James and Julius Timothy, Minister for Finance with little hesitation if any and embracing the vision gave the go ahead.\u00a0 It was not a popular thing at the time as the opposition Freedom and Labour Parties branded it as just another go round of wasteful days of partying.<\/p>\n<p>They could not see what it meant for the advancement of our musical culture and so it is no surprise that now they are in office the WCMF is little more than yes, days of partying.\u00a0 A time like now demands the services of our men and women with vision who can bring forward new ideas not just parodies of older ones.\u00a0 Some would like me to spend time here writing about the carnival and who should have won the Calypso Monarch crown but I leave that to those who know more about it than I do.\u00a0\u00a0 To my mind carnival is just a good time festival and its way forward is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>I was asked why do you make any suggestions in this column for advancement of Waitikubuli because those guys in office only notice what comes from the sycophants who wear red shirts.\u00a0 These boom-flies fall over each other to show mostly artificial love for the Prime Minister driven by the need for a salary and a moment of fame. My response is always to say that this land is ours and no matter how it looks today everything is for a time.<\/p>\n<p>We have a Domfesta Festival which is a festival of our arts and\u00a0 nearly one-handedly cultural icon Raymond Lawrence has struggled with it for nearly his whole life, Carnival Festival is mainly for calypso war,\u00a0 controversy\u00a0 and some street jump-up, World Creole Music Festival (WCMF)\u00a0 is still searching for its soul but is a highlight of the Creole season, Creole in the Park Festival is a commercial thing feeding off the WCMF season, The Emancipation Festival in which we are supposed to celebrate the freedom of our ancestors from brutal slavery but of course it has melted down to just another, \u201crum and party\u2019 session and we add on some\u00a0 catholic church originated festivals in between.<\/p>\n<p>But not for the life of me can I think of one nature festival to compliment our boast of being the Nature Island of the world.\u00a0 And by the way Nature Island of the world is fine but Nature Island of the Caribbean is better because it identifies our location and allows the magic of the Caribbean region which is a magnet for European tourists to be included without having to extend the wordiness of our world promotions.\u00a0\u00a0 There is no festival for our birds indeed we have a bird called Diablotin in danger of being banished from our dictionary.\u00a0 No festival for our flower and fauna, none for our rivers and water or our mountains indeed all our festivals except for Domfesta call for just celebration without meaning.<\/p>\n<p>On a visit to Barbados you would believe that the water display at the airport terminal as you enter would qualify it to be perceived as the island of water, but come to Dominica and the stone and concrete structure that greets the tourist ships including the sorry and dismally\u00a0 failed attempt at a fountain on the Roseau bay front road makes the true Isle of waters\u00a0 where \u201cYou could find the rivers flow everywhere you go\u2019\u00a0 nothing but an isle of concrete, steel,\u00a0 gas and second hand motor cars.\u00a0 The Botanic Gardens,\u00a0 our only real green patch in the city has increasingly yielded to concrete\u00a0 houses back and front reducing this ample space to just a front piece for amateur football and cricket.<\/p>\n<p>Remove all these buildings and all the green houses and an amazing plot of real estate from the Valley Road to Morne Bruce and even to include Jack, s Walk would emerge.\u00a0 A riot of colour from a flower display from the foot of Morne Bruce\u00a0\u00a0 way up to the stone Cross of Jesus at the top would stagger the minds of tourists and locals. And do not tell me that you do not know where to relocate all the agricultural houses and plants that started with one or two and now appear something like a small village community or to say that it would cost too much except if you believe that an exaggerated palace cathedral for the President is more important to our economy.<\/p>\n<p>A nature festival would attract nature lovers from all over.\u00a0 The program could include a blessing of the water ceremony and river festival, lessons in water preservation, a nature festival pageant and parade, hiking on the Waitikubuli trail and need I go on?\u00a0 Oh yes we would have a real and true nature queen, with nature costumes and not a copy of the metropolitan idea mixed with the Trinidad carnival concept which we brew together and\u00a0 call, \u2018Miss Dominica.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Earth is the only planet known to support life and Waitikubuli is one of the few last remaining places where anyone can live on Earth as God first made it.\u00a0 That is why we have been moved to call it the Nature Island.\u00a0 There are tons and tons of people who would\u00a0\u00a0 passionately crave to be in a place like this and would pay dearly for that opportunity.\u00a0 Instead of sitting on our hands and leaving it to the Chinese to move our island forward peppering our environment with cheap goods as a price of their favour, or extending hands to heaven praying for Chavez to live longer so that he can give us a few more handouts\u00a0 let us agree that it is time to do something new for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>But then we need visionary leaders for visionary development and not just believers in concrete steel and gas that make good election manifesto pictures but signify little in the great struggle to develop the minds of our people which by the way is the only true development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a particular day some years ago I sat with Mr. Sheridan Gregoire then Head of the National Development Corporation at his invitation in the office of then PM Edison James to discuss funding for the proposed World Creole Music&#8230;","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-dennis"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: A nature island without a nature festival - Dominica News Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/just-dennis\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: A nature island without a nature festival - Dominica News Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On a particular day some years ago I sat with Mr. Sheridan Gregoire then Head of the National Development Corporation at his invitation in the office of then PM Edison James to discuss funding for the proposed World Creole Music...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/just-dennis\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dominica News Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-02-21T15:54:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dennis-TDN.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"193\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"290\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/columns\\\/just-dennis\\\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/columns\\\/just-dennis\\\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/51a62154b494e84510be75e846b1cf55\"},\"headline\":\"DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: A nature island without a nature festival\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-02-21T15:54:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/columns\\\/just-dennis\\\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":1077,\"commentCount\":17,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/columns\\\/just-dennis\\\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2012\\\/07\\\/Dennis-TDN.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Just Dennis\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/columns\\\/just-dennis\\\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/columns\\\/just-dennis\\\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/columns\\\/just-dennis\\\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\\\/\",\"name\":\"DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: A nature island without a nature festival - Dominica News Online\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/columns\\\/just-dennis\\\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/columns\\\/just-dennis\\\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2012\\\/07\\\/Dennis-TDN.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-02-21T15:54:41+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/51a62154b494e84510be75e846b1cf55\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/columns\\\/just-dennis\\\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/columns\\\/just-dennis\\\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/columns\\\/just-dennis\\\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2012\\\/07\\\/Dennis-TDN.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2012\\\/07\\\/Dennis-TDN.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/columns\\\/just-dennis\\\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: A nature island without a nature festival\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"Dominica News Online\",\"description\":\"The most popular news site in the Commonwealth of Dominica\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/51a62154b494e84510be75e846b1cf55\",\"name\":\"Admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/bd0b04180c51bc8e59c8d28d7acff1965c4b2afbb02839737980abb592734752?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/bd0b04180c51bc8e59c8d28d7acff1965c4b2afbb02839737980abb592734752?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/bd0b04180c51bc8e59c8d28d7acff1965c4b2afbb02839737980abb592734752?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Admin\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/author\\\/rsanford\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: A nature island without a nature festival - Dominica News Online","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/just-dennis\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: A nature island without a nature festival - Dominica News Online","og_description":"On a particular day some years ago I sat with Mr. Sheridan Gregoire then Head of the National Development Corporation at his invitation in the office of then PM Edison James to discuss funding for the proposed World Creole Music...","og_url":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/just-dennis\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\/","og_site_name":"Dominica News Online","article_published_time":"2013-02-21T15:54:41+00:00","og_image":[{"width":193,"height":290,"url":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dennis-TDN.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Admin","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Admin","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/just-dennis\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/just-dennis\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\/"},"author":{"name":"Admin","@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/51a62154b494e84510be75e846b1cf55"},"headline":"DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: A nature island without a nature festival","datePublished":"2013-02-21T15:54:41+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/just-dennis\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\/"},"wordCount":1077,"commentCount":17,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/just-dennis\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dennis-TDN.jpg","articleSection":["Just Dennis"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/just-dennis\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/just-dennis\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\/","url":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/just-dennis\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\/","name":"DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: A nature island without a nature festival - Dominica News Online","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/just-dennis\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/just-dennis\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dennis-TDN.jpg","datePublished":"2013-02-21T15:54:41+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/51a62154b494e84510be75e846b1cf55"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/just-dennis\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/just-dennis\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/just-dennis\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dennis-TDN.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dennis-TDN.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/columns\/just-dennis\/dennis-joseph-weekly-a-nature-island-without-a-nature-festival\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: A nature island without a nature festival"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/","name":"Dominica News Online","description":"The most popular news site in the Commonwealth of Dominica","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/51a62154b494e84510be75e846b1cf55","name":"Admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bd0b04180c51bc8e59c8d28d7acff1965c4b2afbb02839737980abb592734752?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bd0b04180c51bc8e59c8d28d7acff1965c4b2afbb02839737980abb592734752?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bd0b04180c51bc8e59c8d28d7acff1965c4b2afbb02839737980abb592734752?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Admin"},"url":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/author\/rsanford\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86156,"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86154\/revisions\/86156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}