{"id":519,"date":"2011-04-03T14:56:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T18:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/?p=519"},"modified":"2011-04-03T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T19:00:08","slug":"putting-the-ha-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/2011\/04\/putting-the-ha-in-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting the Ha in Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Haitian V vs. MTA Candy Hustler\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dufFwLKG178?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>\n<p>Last Thursday (3\/31), VHP sponsored its first-ever comedy night to raise money for reforestation in Haiti.\u00a0 The evening opened with student comedians Dan Sohval and Jehan Shams, members of Vassar\u2019s new stand-up club ComedyNormative.\u00a0 For the headline performance, VHP invited Haitian V, a young Haitian-American comic from Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>Haitian V kicked off by introducing himself to the audience\u2013 by his <em>full<\/em> name:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy name is Vladimir Barthelemow Thelonious Rasputin Slocumb Calixte III,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cSeriously.\u00a0 Let\u2019s get that out of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haitian V went on to tell stories and jokes about Haitians in Brooklyn, his college roommate, his mom, and coming to Poughkeepsie after watching <em>The Poughkeepsie Tapes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The evening was complete with hot cr\u00eapes, cupcakes, and mocktails.<\/p>\n<p>In all, VHP raised <strong>$295<\/strong> from ticket sales for this event, which amounts to <strong>59 trees planted in Haiti<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Want more of Haitian V\u2019s humor?\u00a0 Take a look at his YouTube channel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/EntertainmentsFuture\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday (3\/31), VHP sponsored its first-ever comedy night to raise money for reforestation in Haiti.\u00a0 The evening opened with student comedians Dan Sohval and Jehan Shams, members of Vassar\u2019s new stand-up club ComedyNormative.\u00a0 For the headline performance, VHP invited Haitian V, a young Haitian-American comic from Brooklyn. Haitian V kicked off by introducing himself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}