{"id":195,"date":"2008-10-11T22:50:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T05:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2008-10-12T22:47:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T05:47:30","slug":"the-land-where-chachas-never-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"The Land Where Chachas Never Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/montebello-1.jpg' title='montebello-1.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/montebello-1.jpg' alt='montebello-1.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine was back in town last week (she lives in Queens but grew up in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Gabriel_Valley\">SGV<\/a>) and we had the following conversation:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> What have you been doing since you&#8217;ve been back?<br \/>\n<strong>Her:<\/strong> Last night I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/myfoxla.cityvoter.com\/la-cita\/biz\/63285\">Punky Reggae at La Cita.<br \/>\n<\/a><strong>Me:<\/strong> Oh yeah, how was it?<br \/>\n<strong>Her:<\/strong> [long pause] uh&#8230;mmm&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Me:<\/strong> What? Too many hipsters?<br \/>\n<strong>Her:<\/strong> No&#8230;it was more like&#8230;<em><strong>if the Montebello Mall exploded!<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Me:<\/strong> Ah&#8230;<br \/>\n[<em>visuals flood my mind<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Another SGV friend claims the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hottopic.com\/hottopic\/index.jsp\">Hot Topic<\/a> store opened in the Montebello Mall (officially known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montebellotowncenter.com\/\">Montebello Town Center<\/a>). Can this be true? I think I was going to Schurr High School at the time (I lasted less than two months) when one of the punks came to school and said: &#8220;Oh my god, you guys! They&#8217;re selling Doc Martens at the mall!&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine was back in town last week (she lives in Queens but grew up in SGV) and we had the following conversation: Me: What have you been doing since you&#8217;ve been back? Her: Last night I went to Punky Reggae at La Cita. Me: Oh yeah, how was it? Her: [long pause] &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=195\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Land Where Chachas Never Die<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}