{"id":547,"date":"2005-10-29T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-29T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=547"},"modified":"2005-10-29T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-29T19:59:00","slug":"parade-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"Parade of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

File this under “Things We Miss Out On by not Living Closer to Town”: Pueblo’s Day of the Dead parade<\/a>. (Registration required: Bug Me Not<\/a> is your friend.)<\/p>\n

The fact that it happened on a Friday, three days early, merely shows how acculturated el d\u00eda de los muertos<\/em> is becoming; it’s about as truly Mexican anymore around here as St. Patrick’s Day is truly Irish. And of course the latter never was such a big deal in Ireland itself until it bounced back from North America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You will know that the Day of the Dead is truly Americanized when retail merchants advertise special deals: “Open late on Nov. 2! Everything 20 percent off!” And the traditionalists will moan, “It’s supposed to be about family! It’s religious!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

File this under “Things We Miss Out On by not Living Closer to Town”: Pueblo’s Day of the Dead parade. (Registration required: Bug Me Not is your friend.) The fact that it happened on a Friday, three days early, merely shows how acculturated el d\u00eda de los muertos is becoming; it’s about as truly Mexican […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-day-of-the-dead"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-8P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9939,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9939","url_meta":{"origin":547,"position":0},"title":"Photos: Mexico City’s Day of the Dead Parade","author":"Chas S. 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