{"id":5936,"date":"2016-05-10T12:35:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=5936"},"modified":"2016-05-10T12:35:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:35:33","slug":"selebrasyon-haitian-creative-series-wednesday-may-11th-haiti-cultural-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=5936","title":{"rendered":"Selebrasyon! | Haitian Creative Series : Wednesday, May 11th \u00ab Haiti Cultural Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am showing some of my short documentaries tomorrow in Brooklyn. The info is below and you can\u00a0get advance tickets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/haitian-creative-film-series-weeksville-tickets-24963730189?\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/haiticulturalx.org\/selebrasyon-haitian-creative-series-wednesday-may-11th\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/Haitian-Creative-Series-e1461686466754.jpg?w=1021\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/haiticulturalx.org\/selebrasyon-haitian-creative-series-wednesday-may-11th\">Selebrasyon! | Haitian Creative Series : Wednesday, May 11th \u00ab Haiti Cultural Exchange<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am showing some of my short documentaries tomorrow in Brooklyn. The info is below and you can\u00a0get advance tickets here. Source: Selebrasyon! | Haitian Creative Series : Wednesday, May 11th \u00ab Haiti Cultural Exchange<\/p>\n<div class=\"wrap-excerpt-more\"><a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=5936\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portrait","post--featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/Haitian-Creative-Series-e1461686466754.jpg?fit=500%2C334","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EmB-1xK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4008,"url":"http:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=4008","url_meta":{"origin":5936,"position":0},"title":"Video and Photos: Leyla McCalla @ BRIC House 2.11.14","date":"12 Feb \u201914","format":false,"excerpt":"Amazing Set by this singer\/musician who is based in New Orleans and is of Haitian descent. 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