{"id":81,"date":"2007-11-01T12:52:11","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T19:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2007-11-03T18:15:06","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T01:15:06","slug":"dia-de-muertos-y-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Dia de Muertos y Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/altarjpg.JPG' title='altarjpg.JPG'><img src='https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/altarjpg.JPG' alt='altarjpg.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><strong>A short post from Oaxaca:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>For many years we have attempted to combine the spirit of both Dia de Muertos and Halloween in the way we\u00c2\u00b4ve decorated, in our parties that featured jack o\u00c2\u00b4lanterns and ofrendas, in the way we\u00c2\u00b4ve recreated panteones between the stuffed monsters in our front yard. Its a method of navigating a life between cultures but more than that, of creating our own culture based on the world around us. To me this is what it means to be Chicana.<br \/>\nSo to my surprise, I\u00c2\u00b4ve found the same process existing here in Mexico. Halloween is huge here, bigger than in the US and the costumes much more original and entertaining. There are no little princesses and sexy nurses here! The streets are filled little lloranas, bloody mummies, werewolves, viudas negras, brujitas and vampiros, marching and dancing to tamborazos on streets filled with cempasuchil, amaranta and copal. It\u00c2\u00b4s an amazing mix of traditions that seem to blend in seamlessly.<br \/>\nTake that purists! <\/p>\n<p>Halloween song from DF:<br \/>\n<em>Somos las calaveritas<br \/>\nVenimos por los dulces<br \/>\nSi no nos dan los dulces<br \/>\nLos vamos a espantar!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More when I get back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short post from Oaxaca: For many years we have attempted to combine the spirit of both Dia de Muertos and Halloween in the way we\u00c2\u00b4ve decorated, in our parties that featured jack o\u00c2\u00b4lanterns and ofrendas, in the way we\u00c2\u00b4ve recreated panteones between the stuffed monsters in our front yard. Its a method of navigating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=81\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dia de Muertos y 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\/81"}],"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=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}