{"id":3706,"date":"2013-10-22T23:08:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T03:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=3706"},"modified":"2015-04-25T16:05:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T20:05:24","slug":"next-in-the-haitian-creatives-series-smax-music-and-melimel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=3706","title":{"rendered":"Updated: Next in the Haitian Creatives Series: Smax Music and Melimel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Link to the Multimedia <a href=\"http:\/\/richardlouissaint.com\/?fluxus_portfolio=mel-and-smax\" target=\"_blank\">Essay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3707\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?attachment_id=3707\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/Q0C7194.jpg?fit=667%2C1000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"667,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1381356919&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9Richard Louissaint&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"_Q0C7194\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/Q0C7194.jpg?fit=667%2C1000&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/Q0C7194.jpg?fit=667%2C1000&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3707\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/Q0C7194.jpg?resize=667%2C1000\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link to the Multimedia Essay.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wrap-excerpt-more\"><a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=3706\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3707,"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":[1004,763],"class_list":["post-3706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portrait","tag-wearethenewhaitians","tag-haitian-musicians","post--featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/Q0C7194.jpg?fit=667%2C1000&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EmB-XM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3783,"url":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=3783","url_meta":{"origin":3706,"position":0},"title":"Haitian Creatives Series: Melimel &#8211; Percusionist and graphic artist.","date":"18 Oct \u201913","format":false,"excerpt":"Melimel- Percusionist and graphic artist., originally uploaded by richlouis.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;portrait&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/10349580665_2b07f31db8.jpg?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5606,"url":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=5606","url_meta":{"origin":3706,"position":1},"title":"Mel and Smax: Love in Haiti and the Dominican Republic","date":"23 Jul \u201915","format":"image","excerpt":"This is pretty self-explanatory. 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