{"id":36730,"date":"2017-09-16T15:04:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=36730"},"modified":"2017-09-16T15:04:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T19:04:13","slug":"el-grito-and-a-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/el-grito-and-a-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"El Grito &#8212; and a Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Mexico&#8217;s Independence Day. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cry_of_Dolores\">Read more about El Grito (the cry)<\/a> that triggered the Mexican War of Independence. There should be lots of partying tonight, but I&#8217;m not going anywhere. It will be easier to joy celebrations when I live in town next year!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ADolores_hidalgo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/97\/Dolores_hidalgo.jpg\/256px-Dolores_hidalgo.jpg\" alt=\"Dolores hidalgo\" width=\"256\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in front of the church in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato. (Photo By Paigemorrison at English Wikipedia, via Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Unrelated, I was sent a link today to a great contest offering a chance to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giveaways.dojomojo.ninja\/landing?promo_id=2c210f59-003c-494a-b5b3-46bf7f1dcc30&amp;campaign_id=1583&amp;utm_campaign=Culinary-trip-for-two-to-Mexico-&amp;utm_medium=sweeps&amp;utm_source=Acanela&amp;title=Culinary%20trip%20for%20two%20to%20Mexico\">win a culinary trip for two to M\u00e9rida<\/a>. I&#8217;m not affiliated with this context and it is only open to US residents, but I thought some of you might be interested!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Mexico&#8217;s Independence Day. Read more about El Grito (the cry) that triggered the Mexican War of Independence. There should be lots of partying tonight, but I&#8217;m not going anywhere. It will be easier to joy celebrations when I live in town next year! Unrelated, I was sent a link today to a great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[895,14,635,1650,3,894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merida","category-mexico","category-north-america","category-progresochelemchuburna","category-travel","category-yucatan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36732,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36730\/revisions\/36732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}