{"id":5260,"date":"2014-12-06T23:51:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T04:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=5260"},"modified":"2014-12-07T15:26:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T20:26:51","slug":"first-day-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=5260","title":{"rendered":"First and second DAY in Haiti."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well that didn&#8217;t turn out so well. My original post got erased while I was trying to upload it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/wpid-wp-1417978235727.jpg\" class=\"link-to-image js-link-to-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"wp-1417978235727.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/wpid-wp-1417978235727.jpg?w=1021\" alt=\"image\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is a big youth arts festival that Prosjekt Haiti is a part of in Petionville. They are also who is hosting me and some others this week. Currently we are staying at their guest house in Delmas, Port au Prince before going off to another area called Saint Louis du Sud.<\/p>\n<p>Digicel&#8217;s presence is definitely obvious from cell phones to the umbrellas used as shade by street vendors. Motor bikes are just as popular as Tap Tap (commuter trucks) and you can see whole families riding on them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/wpid-wp-1417978280683.jpg\" class=\"link-to-image js-link-to-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"wp-1417978280683.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/wpid-wp-1417978280683.jpg?w=1021\" alt=\"image\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So im here and taking it all in. The place where my family is from.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/wpid-wp-1417978342531.jpg\" class=\"link-to-image js-link-to-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"wp-1417978342531.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/wpid-wp-1417978342531.jpg?w=1021\" alt=\"image\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And yeah I hate mosquitos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well that didn&#8217;t turn out so well. My original post got erased while I was trying to upload it. Today is a big youth arts festival that Prosjekt Haiti is a part of in Petionville. They are also who is hosting me and some others this week. Currently we are &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wrap-excerpt-more\"><a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=5260\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5266,"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":[24,26],"tags":[47,980,981],"class_list":["post-5260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landscaping","category-portrait","tag-haiti","tag-petionville","tag-travel","post--featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/wpid-wp-14179782357271.jpg?fit=1224%2C1632&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EmB-1mQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5329,"url":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=5329","url_meta":{"origin":5260,"position":0},"title":"My Solo Exhibition in Haiti","date":"21 Dec \u201914","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Another great thing to happen aside from my visiting Haiti was having my first solo exhibition there which features work from my Haitian Creatives series. It's curated by Veronica Sharon and runs until December 29th in Petionville.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;news&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/tumblr_ngp7vneZyD1qzuhppo1_1280.jpg?fit=720%2C573&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1753,"url":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=1753","url_meta":{"origin":5260,"position":1},"title":"Events this week Benefiting Haiti Courtesy of  Nobody Beats the LIZ","date":"19 Jan \u201910","format":false,"excerpt":"So fellow photographer Elizabeth Allen has done the duty of listing some of the upcoming events benefiting Haiti relief. Show\/Event Picks of the Week: 1.18.10 Help Haiti Edition! \u00ab Nobody Beats the LIZ.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;swipe&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3253,"url":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=3253","url_meta":{"origin":5260,"position":2},"title":"Video: This Is a Zing Experience &#8211; Project Haiti Track by Track","date":"15 Apr \u201913","format":false,"excerpt":"Paul and Cynthia of Zing Experience (http:\/\/www.zingexperience.com) discuss each song from their debut album Project Haiti. If you haven't yet, you can get Project Haiti at http:\/\/music.peacetones.org\/album\/project-haiti. Ayibobo! 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