{"id":788,"date":"2007-10-27T23:26:36","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T07:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/?p=788"},"modified":"2013-04-18T21:53:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T04:53:39","slug":"day-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/day-of-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Day of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/102707\/soundslider.swf?size=2','','width=925,height=634')\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/102707\/custom\/01.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=1000 border=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center>[<a HREF=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/102707\/soundslider.swf?size=2','','width=925,height=634')\"><href =\"javascript:void(0)\">Picture Gallery<\/href><\/a>][<a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/102707\/102707.mov','','width=160,height=105')\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Video<\/a>]<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Ah, the dearly departed. And a whole day, eh hem, deadicated to them! So you have a cemetery, people in skeletony things, cool arty magical goods, and tasty food stands full of all you can pay for taquitos. Not that I had any of those tasty tasty taquitos. Or the huge pina colada in the hallowed out pineapple with the umbrellas and flowers. Nope.<\/p>\n<p>I went over to the Day of the Dead Festival at Hollywood Forever Cemetery and this year I was on time. Last year I was running late and missed a bunch of cool stuff. Like convenient parking. Not this year! I got killer parking and no lines for taquitos! Ooops, I mean the taquitos I just looked at and kept walking. So yes it was excellent, and it was so cool I volunteered to help decorate the Day of the Dead float for the Rose Parade. Check out the [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafesprings.org\/images\/Rose%20Parade.JPG\">float<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Picture Gallery][Video] Ah, the dearly departed. And a whole day, eh hem, deadicated to them! So you have a cemetery, people in skeletony things, cool arty magical goods, and tasty food stands full of all you can pay for taquitos. Not that I had any of those tasty tasty taquitos. Or the huge pina colada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MOCs-cI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3312,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/3312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}