{"id":239,"date":"2011-09-15T09:10:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T15:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casashalom.net\/potters\/?p=239"},"modified":"2012-05-16T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T00:30:00","slug":"independence-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110917-092628.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110917-092628.jpg\" alt=\"20110917-092628.jpg\" \/><\/a> Today is Guatemala&#8217;s independence day, and this year they&#8217;re celebrating 190 years of independence from Spain.<br \/>\nA tradition every year is for kids from every school to run with a torch from the town center back to their school. Everyone else lines the streets, cheers them on and throws water on them as they pass. It&#8217;s a ton of fun, and I&#8217;ve been able to run with the kids from Shalom a few times in the past. This year we&#8217;ve been pretty busy with preparations to buy land, so we weren&#8217;t able to go, but we did get to watch the kids run past where we live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Guatemala&#8217;s independence day, and this year they&#8217;re celebrating 190 years of independence from Spain. A tradition every year is for kids from every school to run with a torch from the town center back to their school. Everyone else lines the streets, cheers them on and throws water on them as they pass. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?p=239\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Independence Day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guatemala"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2tws0-3R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}