{"id":657,"date":"2004-12-24T17:15:46","date_gmt":"2004-12-24T17:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:56","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:56","slug":"christmas_in_lo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, TG and I took Littlest Guy to meet the Simons at Olivera Street (the old Zocalo of Los Angeles). We had a wonderful evening with them, and more, sat and enjoyed &#8216;la posada&#8217;, the traditional Hispanic Christmas procession.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/006034.php\" target=\"browser\">talked about tradition and history before<\/a>, and the notion that one can be &#8216;from&#8217; a tradition and not be &#8216;of&#8217; it today.<\/p>\n<p>Watching the angels walking toward us, I felt the attachment to our Angelino past, and a real sense of connection to and respect for it. But while I&#8217;m not rushing out to become a Catholic&#8230;I did feel reverent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerlsimon.com\/mt-archives\/2004\/12\/christmas_in_la.php\" target=\"browser\">Roger has pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And with that, I&#8217;ll wish you all a Merry Christmas &#8211; each and every one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, TG and I took Littlest Guy to meet the Simons in the old Zocalo of Los Angeles. We had a wonderful evening with them, and enjoyed &#8216;la posada&#8217;, the traditional Hispanic Christmas procession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}