{"id":558,"date":"2016-08-14T19:52:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T19:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sundaymorningeasy.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2016-08-14T23:55:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T23:55:46","slug":"loving-in-the-war-years-day-twenty-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymorningeasy.com\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"loving in the war years: day twenty one"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"https:\/\/dellanohlphotography.com\/2014\/10\/27\/oaxaca-at-night-dia-de-los-muertos\/\" src=\"https:\/\/dellanohlphotography.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/dia-de-los-muertos-01.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/dellanohlphotography.com\/2014\/10\/27\/oaxaca-at-night-dia-de-los-muertos\/\" width=\"720\" height=\"498\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">dia de los muertos en oaxaca<br \/> foto credit: della nohl photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>i still observe dia de los muertos.<\/p>\n<p>even after a white lady invited me over to her house to &#8216;celebrate&#8217; with drinks she made from a new recipe she found,<br \/>\neven after i was informed by a mexican mexican (who, unlike american poser mexican me, never suffered from assimilation) that i was doing it wrong,<br \/>\neven after all the articles declaring dia de los muertos to be the &#8216;mexican halloween,&#8217;<br \/>\neven after the thousands and thousands of white women with the money to get skeleton face make up tossed their braided hair at me,<\/p>\n<p>even though i have so many questions: do you remember\/honor children on the first or the second of november? how do you construct an alter? what do you say? what do you do? do you pray? do you cry? i search the internet for answers and curse again&#8211;oh, how i wish the internet was not my elder, my mentor.<\/p>\n<p>even after the insecurity confusion anger<br \/>\nsuffering.<\/p>\n<p>i still observe dia de los muertos because it is a mourning ritual that still exists. it still exists. it survived.<br \/>\nthe whispering wind calms me. lets me know. it&#8217;s ok.<br \/>\nit&#8217;s ok.<br \/>\nwe&#8217;ll survive.<br \/>\neven after.<\/p>\n<p>i honor<br \/>\nBerta.<br \/>\nCharity.<br \/>\nJess.<br \/>\nJ.<br \/>\nMaria.<\/p>\n<p>because even after all this time.<br \/>\ni still miss them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i still observe dia de los muertos. even after a white lady invited me over to her house to &#8216;celebrate&#8217; with drinks she made from a new recipe she found, even after i was informed by a mexican mexican (who, unlike american poser mexican me, never suffered from assimilation) that i was doing it wrong, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":""},"categories":[15,17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymorningeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymorningeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymorningeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymorningeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymorningeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymorningeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymorningeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymorningeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymorningeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymorningeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}