{"id":3754,"date":"2014-03-21T10:01:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T14:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2014-03-21T10:01:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T14:01:45","slug":"drakes-ovo-fest-gets-government-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=3754","title":{"rendered":"Drake&#8217;s OVO Fest Gets Government Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wylt-ohsodj.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1419\" alt=\"wylt.ohsodj\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wylt-ohsodj.jpg?resize=220%2C220\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wylt-ohsodj.jpg?w=220&amp;ssl=1 220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wylt-ohsodj.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>Well, Drake continues to win.<\/p>\n<p>This is year 5 for Drake&#8217;s annual OVO Fest in Toronto and also the first year that its getting government funding from Ontario. Congrats to ChampagnePapi!<\/p>\n<p>OVO Fest, scheduled for Aug. 3 and 4 is receiving a $300,000 grant from the Celebrate Ontario program administered by the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport to stage the two-day festival.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The grant puts OVO Fest in the same lane as Canada\u2019s biggest events like Toronto International Film Festival (Sept. 4-14), the Stratford Festival of theatre, Rogers Cup tennis tournament (Aug. 2-10) and JFL42 comedy festival (Sept. 18-27).<\/p>\n<p>This year the Fest will feature OutKast. In the past, other big performers have included Eminem, Jay-Z, Stevie Wonder, Snoop Dogg, Diddy and Kanye West.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Well, Drake continues to win. This is year 5 for Drake&#8217;s annual OVO Fest in Toronto and also the first year that its getting government funding from Ontario. Congrats to ChampagnePapi! OVO Fest, scheduled for <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=3754\" title=\"Drake&#8217;s OVO Fest Gets Government Funding\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[366,955],"class_list":["post-3754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-drake","tag-ovo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-Yy","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}