{"id":77,"date":"2007-10-17T22:43:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T05:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2008-02-14T10:02:04","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T17:02:04","slug":"chongas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Chongas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"366\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uVHdqmN7-XE&#038;rel=1&#038;border=0\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uVHdqmN7-XE&#038;rel=1&#038;border=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"366\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<strong>The Chongalicious Video<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During my internet search for examples of chola bracelets, I came across this humorous video for Chongalicious. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=chonga\">Chongas<\/a>, I found out are Miami Cuban versions of our homegirls\/chachas\/cholas. The song was written during a bored night at home by the two girls in the video and was intended to be a parody of Chongas, instead it became a huge hit on Miami radio and the defacto Chonga anthem. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miaminewtimes.com\/2007-06-14\/news\/chongas\/\">article<\/a> in the Miami Herald traces some of the Chonga style back to Chicanas in East Los. There does seem to be some sort of style universality to urban U.S. Latinas: tight clothes, dark lipliner, groomed eyebrows etc. Any theories why this is so?<\/p>\n<p>To continue on this thread of &#8220;ch&#8221; subjects, I&#8217;ll soon be posting on &#8220;Chalga.&#8221; Betcha can&#8217;t wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chongalicious Video During my internet search for examples of chola bracelets, I came across this humorous video for Chongalicious. Chongas, I found out are Miami Cuban versions of our homegirls\/chachas\/cholas. The song was written during a bored night at home by the two girls in the video and was intended to be a parody &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=77\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chongas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}