{"id":21075,"date":"2011-03-20T10:43:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T14:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=21075"},"modified":"2011-03-20T10:43:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T14:43:45","slug":"wyclef-shot-during-haiti-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=21075","title":{"rendered":"Wyclef Shot During Haiti Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to BoomBox,\u00a0 Wyclef Jean has reportedly been shot at during a trip to his native Haiti.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former Fugees member was visiting the country to lend his support to presidential candidate Michael Martelly, during Martelly&#8217;s preparations for the final round of elections against former First Lady Mirlande Manigat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A car he was riding in was attacked and shot at as he was driving through the capital of Port-au-Prince, accompanied by friend and fellow artist Busta Rhymes and the record executive Jimmy Rosemond. The three traveled to Haiti to take part in a concert to support Martelly&#8217;s bid for presidency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The &#8216;If I Were President: The Haitian Experience&#8217; creator&#8217;s right hand was injured by a bullet, but it seems no other injuries were incurred by Wyclef or the other passengers. Wyclef&#8217;s representatives confirmed the shooting and tweeted, &#8220;We have spoken to Wyclef, he is OK. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wyclef&#8217;s hand was struck by a bullet in Port-au-Prince around 11PM, his publicist said on Sunday. &#8220;He is doing well,&#8221; Cindy Tanenbaum told CNN. No other details about the incident were revealed. However, a photo of Wyclef has since emerged online here, showing the entertainer lying on what appears to be a hospital bed, his right hand bandaged and his left hand resting over his face.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to BoomBox,\u00a0 Wyclef Jean has reportedly been shot at during a trip to his native Haiti. The former Fugees member was visiting the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[745,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-and-entertainment","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}