{"id":1551481,"date":"2024-03-13T13:20:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T13:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajws.org\/?p=35797"},"modified":"2024-03-13T13:20:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T13:20:03","slug":"this-is-me-traditional-dance-in-the-dominican-republic-is-helping-girls-reclaim-their-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/13\/this-is-me-traditional-dance-in-the-dominican-republic-is-helping-girls-reclaim-their-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Me: Traditional dance in the Dominican Republic is helping girls reclaim their identity"},"content":{"rendered":"Teresa Mercedes Emilia, 19, says she was blessed to grow up surrounded by strong women \u2014 especially her proud grandmother. She was born in the rural community of Los Mercedes, which was founded by Afro-descendent people (known as \u201ccimarrones\u201d) who liberated themselves from enslavement and created their own autonomous communities. Teresa remembers picking coffee beans, &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/ajws.org\/blog\/this-is-me-traditional-dance-in-the-dominican-republic-is-helping-girls-reclaim-their-identity\/\"><\/a>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ajws.org\/blog\/this-is-me-traditional-dance-in-the-dominican-republic-is-helping-girls-reclaim-their-identity\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/ajws.org\/blog\/this-is-me-traditional-dance-in-the-dominican-republic-is-helping-girls-reclaim-their-identity\/\">American Jewish World Service \u2013 AJWS<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teresa Mercedes Emilia, 19, says she was blessed to grow up surrounded by strong women \u2014 especially her proud grandmother. She was born in the rural community of Los Mercedes, which was founded by Afro-descendent people (known as \u201ccimarrones\u201d) who libe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1303],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551484,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551481\/revisions\/1551484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}