{"id":11949,"date":"2020-02-04T09:14:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T13:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=11949"},"modified":"2020-02-04T09:18:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T13:18:16","slug":"makeda-darius-crowned-nwac-national-calypso-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=11949","title":{"rendered":"Makeda Darius crowned NWAC National Calypso Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"470\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7mLbclGyv-E\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Makeda Darius\u2019 response, in song, to Prof Selwyn Cudjoe\u2019s claim that the late Sat Maharaj reminded him of US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr, earned her the National Women Action Committee\u2019s (NWAC) National Calypso Queen crown. Her piece was entitled, No Martin.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nDarius was among 16 women who vied for the crown. The final was held on Sunday at Queen\u2019s Hall, St Ann\u2019s Road, Port of Spain.<br \/>\n<B><I><A HREF=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2020\/02\/03\/makeda-darius-crowned-nwac-national-calypso-queen\/\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/I><\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makeda Darius\u2019 response, in song, to Prof Selwyn Cudjoe\u2019s claim that the late Sat Maharaj reminded him of US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr, earned her the National Women Action Committee\u2019s (NWAC) National Calypso Queen crown. Her piece was entitled, No Martin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1369,632,12],"tags":[70,404,171],"class_list":["post-11949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-hinduism","category-racism-watch","category-religion","tag-calypso","tag-sat-maharaj","tag-selwyn-r-cudjoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11952,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11949\/revisions\/11952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}