{"id":245402,"date":"2004-06-07T12:02:32","date_gmt":"2004-06-07T16:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/06\/junkanoo-in-june-kicks-off"},"modified":"2004-06-07T12:02:32","modified_gmt":"2004-06-07T16:02:32","slug":"junkanoo-in-june-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/06\/junkanoo-in-june-kicks-off","title":{"rendered":"Junkanoo In June Kicks Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Droves of Junkanoo lovers and those loving at first sight welcomed the Fifth Annual Junkanoo in June festival on saturday at Arawak Cay<P><br \/>\nThe festival, which will be staged every Saturday in June, is known for attracting people from all creeds and backgrounds.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThis year that tradition was continued, but with a new strategy by the Ministry of Tourism. It aims to fill the void in what is considered to be a slow month for the country&#8217;s tourism industry.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nFor several months the government has aggressively been re-forming the country&#8217;s image as a stopover destination for cruise ship passengers. With this in mind, the Ministry of Tourism is hopeful that the Junkanoo in June festival will provide tourists with night-time entertainment.<br \/>\n<P><B>Source: Khashan Poitier, The Nassau Guardian<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Tourism is hopeful that the Junkanoo in June festival will provide tourists with night-time entertainment, improving the Bahamas&#39; image as a desireable stopover spot for cruise ships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}