{"id":200,"date":"2008-10-31T11:02:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T18:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2008-11-02T22:18:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T05:18:45","slug":"happy-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Happy Halloween!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIn Spain this is what is considered ghoulish. Revenge of the Las Indigenas-Oaxaca<\/p>\n

What a difference a year makes! Last year I was sipping chocolate con leche in the beautiful zocalo of Oaxaca, watching the nightly parades of disfraces<\/em> and bandas<\/em> as they made their way through the cobblestone streets. This year, I’ve barely had time from work and my commute to even think about Halloween and Dia de los Muertos. For me, this is my holiday season, the time of the year I celebrate, decorate and look forward to. Unfortunately, the weight and responsibilities of daily life and the rat race have rudely interrupted my commitment to festivity. So this year, it’s about memories and I’ll start with photographs from last year’s celebrations in Mexico. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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\nNo orange pumpkins for sale<\/p>\n

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\nAs tempting as they look, only returning ghosts are allowed to partake in these delicacies<\/p>\n

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\nCandied squash<\/p>\n

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\nMarket in Oaxaca<\/p>\n

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\nMercado in Mexico DF<\/p>\n

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\nShop window in the fancy part of town-Mexico DF<\/p>\n

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\nMercado in Mexico DF<\/p>\n

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\nFruit baskets for the ofrendas<\/p>\n

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\nThere are tons of these stalls full of decorations, quite a chaotic scene- mercado in Mexico DF<\/p>\n

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\nAnother scene from the mercado in Mexico DF<\/p>\n

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\nPapel picado<\/p>\n

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\nMore papel picado<\/p>\n

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\nMasks are for sale everywhere including the Metro kiosks<\/p>\n

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\nMetro workers joining in the holiday spirit<\/p>\n

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\nThese are some of the coolest homemade decorations! Paper mache heads on sticks illuminated by candles inside. At night they make quite a presence-Oaxaca.<\/p>\n

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\nAPPO graffiti en Oaxaca<\/p>\n

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\nFake pumpkins and jack o lantern gourds-Texcoco<\/p>\n

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\nNot a good photo but these costumes were impressive! -Oaxaca<\/p>\n

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\nStudent parade in Oaxaca<\/p>\n

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\nThese stilt walkers were drinking and dancing too! Pretty amazing feat walking uphill on cobblestone streets.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, altares!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Spain this is what is considered ghoulish. Revenge of the Las Indigenas-Oaxaca What a difference a year makes! Last year I was sipping chocolate con leche in the beautiful zocalo of Oaxaca, watching the nightly parades of disfraces and bandas as they made their way through the cobblestone streets. This year, I’ve barely had … Continue reading Happy Halloween!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"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=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}