{"id":1381,"date":"2013-08-09T18:26:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T18:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirausa.net\/wpmirausa\/22\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/09\/dover-celebrates-the-first-festival-colombia-with-you\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T22:23:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T03:23:26","slug":"dover-celebrates-the-first-festival-colombia-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirausa.net\/?p=1381&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Dover Celebrates the First Festival \u201cColombia With You\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-699\" src=\"https:\/\/mirausa.net\/wpmirausa\/22\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Jorge.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" style=\"border: 0; float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" \/>Dover, NJ \u2013 During the sunny afternoon on August 3, MIRA USA hosted the First Cultural Festival \u2018Colombia with You\u2019 , with the purpose of celebrating the rich Colombian culture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"transition: color 0.1s ease-in; -webkit-transition: color 0.1s ease-in; line-height: 20.390625px;\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10151828112972442.1073741832.250305422441&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> to see pictures of the event.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jorge Mu\u00f1oz, leader and spokesman for MIRA USA, also known as the Angel of Queens, was responsible for the opening of the event. Mu\u00f1oz, shared with those in attendance about the social work of MIRA USA in the United States. He used the occasion not only to join the celebration, but also to interact with the residents of Dover and listen to their concerns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The town council, Carolyn Blackman, was also present at the event to congratulate the organization for their continuous work within the community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although it was a rainy morning, over 400 residents and visitors enjoyed the event full of prizes, raffles and artistic presentations. During the afternoon, the sun came out to make the festival a pleasant cultural celebration.<span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There were several acts that entertained the audience with their overflowing Colombia pride. Among them singer Andres Garcia, dance group Cali salsa pal\u2019 mundo, singer &amp; songwriter Acsmed, and other musical groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was entertainment for everyone; kids enjoyed riding ponies, recreational games, and a modern police car on display for people to take pictures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dover, NJ \u2013 During the sunny afternoon on August 3, MIRA USA hosted the First Cultural Festival \u2018Colombia with You\u2019 , with the purpose of celebrating the rich Colombian culture. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1099],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias-en-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirausa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirausa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirausa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirausa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirausa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mirausa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24282,"href":"https:\/\/mirausa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/24282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirausa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirausa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirausa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirausa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}