{"id":1626,"date":"2004-12-29T18:11:25","date_gmt":"2004-12-29T22:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/12\/29\/christmas-back-home-in-southern-cal"},"modified":"2004-12-29T18:11:25","modified_gmt":"2004-12-29T22:11:25","slug":"christmas-back-home-in-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/12\/29\/christmas-back-home-in-southern-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas back home in Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a850'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I miss a few pieces of Christmas in Southern California. A couple of<br \/>\narticles from the Times last Friday reminded me just a bit of it.<br \/>\nFirst, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/12\/24\/nyregion\/24posadas.html?partner=rssnyt\">one on the tradition of <i>las posadas<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe most exciting time will come on Friday night, when the children<br \/>\nwill dress as Mary, Joseph and the three kings. All the parents have<br \/>\nthe night off, so the group, both Aguilar family members and friends,<br \/>\nmay swell to 100 people. They will sing, dance and eat more tamales.<\/p>\n<p>And, at last, they will break a pi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I miss a few pieces of Christmas in Southern California. A couple of articles from the Times last Friday reminded me just a bit of it. First, one on the tradition of las posadas: The most exciting time will come on Friday night, when the children will dress as Mary, Joseph and the three kings. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rmaunsdionmg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-qe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}