{"id":199,"date":"2008-10-17T08:36:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T15:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2008-10-17T22:11:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T05:11:09","slug":"los-angeles-and-my-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles and My Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/p_trini_enrique_viz_blog.jpg' title='p_trini_enrique_viz_blog.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/p_trini_enrique_viz_blog.jpg' alt='p_trini_enrique_viz_blog.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Trini y Enrique, Los Angeles 1920<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until the last few years that I discovered my family had been living in Los Angeles much longer than I thought. I always assumed it was my great-grandmother Matilde who decided to move west after my 32 year old great-grandfather Zacarias died from turberculosis (a disease most likely related to his working in the Arizona copper mines.) Apparently, Matilde&#8217;s mother, known in our family as Nana Grande had already been living here in Los Angeles and according to family hearsay had also been running a boarding house in New York City. I can&#8217;t imagine this last part is true because the rumor concerns some salacious rumors of secret offspring and such and furthermore, how in the world does a Mexican woman of limited economic means move between Sonora, Los Angeles and New York in the early 1900s? I suppose it&#8217;s somehow possible.<br \/>\nAs I slowly make my way through the old family photos, I see &#8220;Los Angeles&#8221; on a great number of them, such as this photo of my great-great aunt Trinidad and her husband Enrique Porter. I often wonder what life was like for them? My grandmother has told me countless stories of discrimination and yet, it seems she and her family easily intermarried and mixed\/socialized with non-Mexicans. Not too much has changed in this city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trini y Enrique, Los Angeles 1920 It wasn&#8217;t until the last few years that I discovered my family had been living in Los Angeles much longer than I thought. I always assumed it was my great-grandmother Matilde who decided to move west after my 32 year old great-grandfather Zacarias died from turberculosis (a disease most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=199\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Los Angeles and My Family<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,15,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"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=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}