{"id":53,"date":"2009-09-15T12:49:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T18:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casashalom.net\/potters\/?p=53"},"modified":"2012-05-19T13:29:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T19:29:13","slug":"independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 15th is Guatemala\u2019s independence day, and the celebration is always so much fun. \u00a0The day before we had a parade\u00a0with all the kids from the school\u00a0where we marched from the the village where Casa Shalom is located over to the neighboring village and back.<\/p>\n<p>Then that evening we went with the kids to San Lucas, a nearby town, to watch a few other parades and bands and fireworks. \u00a0Then we ran back to the orphanage carrying a torch. \u00a0This tradition is truly Guatemalan and so much fun! \u00a0Every independence day they chose some distance to run with a torch, and all along the way people watch and cheer us on and throw water on us as we pass their houses. \u00a0It\u2019s like nothing else that I\u2019ve ever experienced!<\/p>\n<p>This was my third opportunity to join with them, and you can read about my trip two years ago on my\u00a0<a title=\"September 2007\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/brent\/Brents_Guatemala_Website\/September_07.html\">webpage here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Independence - 1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?attachment_id=143\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Independence - 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Independence-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Parade began in Embaulada\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Independence - 2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?attachment_id=144\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Independence - 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Independence-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Front of the parade\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Independence - 3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?attachment_id=145\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Independence - 3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Independence-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Drumline\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Independence - 4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?attachment_id=146\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Independence - 4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Independence-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The flag bearers\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Independence - 5\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?attachment_id=147\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Independence - 5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Independence-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Arriving in Santa Rosa\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Independence - 6\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?attachment_id=148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Independence - 6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Independence-6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Now back to Shalom!\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Independence - 7\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?attachment_id=149\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Independence - 7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Independence-7-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Running with the Torch\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 15th is Guatemala\u2019s independence day, and the celebration is always so much fun. \u00a0The day before we had a parade\u00a0with all the kids from the school\u00a0where we marched from the the village where Casa Shalom is located over to the neighboring village and back. Then that evening we went with the kids to San &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/?p=53\" 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2tws0-R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pottershome.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}