{"id":4999,"date":"2011-03-02T09:25:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T13:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4999"},"modified":"2011-03-02T09:35:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T13:35:55","slug":"cro-cro-compare-and-contrast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4999","title":{"rendered":"Cro Cro &#8211; &#8216;Compare and Contrast&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cro Cro - &#039;Compare and Contrast&#039;\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I1sT5ru9OLE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cro Cro delivering &#8216;Compare and Contrast&#8217; at Calypso Fiesta 2011 in Skinner Park<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<big><b>Encore for Cro Cro at yesterday\u2019s Calypso Fiesta<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n<p><i>By David Cuffy<br \/>\nFebruary 27, 2011<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Skinner Park in San Fernando was sparsely populated when Calypso Fiesta, the semifinal round of the National Calypso Monarch Competition kicked off in broiling hot sun at 12.20 pm yesterday. The National Anthem was played by house band Errol Ince Music Makers before a crowd comprised mainly of \u201cposses,\u201d with members making colourful statements in hues of green, yellow, tangerine, red, blue and pink. Show host Wendell Etienne called on Brother D\u2019Abreau to offer prayers before introducing guest artiste, veteran calypsonian Power (Sonny Francois) who offered Culture of Trinidad and Tobago and Ah Coming for which he received genuine applause.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.tt\/news\/2011\/02\/27\/encore-cro-cro\" title=\"Encore for Cro Cro at yesterday\u2019s Calypso Fiesta\">Full Article : guardian.co.tt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cro Cro delivering &#8216;Compare and Contrast&#8217; at Calypso Fiesta 2011 in Skinner Park<\/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":[11,88,1,7],"tags":[70,544,57,616],"class_list":["post-4999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-entertainment","category-general-tt","category-politics","tag-calypso","tag-calypsonians","tag-carnival","tag-cro-cro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999","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=4999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5001,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions\/5001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}