{"id":38,"date":"2008-12-25T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/?p=38"},"modified":"2010-02-06T18:41:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T23:41:14","slug":"feliz-navidad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/25\/feliz-navidad\/","title":{"rendered":"Feliz Navidad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AF2od0kWayE\/SVP2K7Bd3KI\/AAAAAAAAAH4\/NYIn4r5h8g8\/s1600-h\/_DSC0519.JPG\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283837455338691746\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 400px; float: right; height: 266px; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AF2od0kWayE\/SVP2K7Bd3KI\/AAAAAAAAAH4\/NYIn4r5h8g8\/s400\/_DSC0519.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>I spent a quiet Christmas just relaxing and reading, as many places were shut down and services closed, so it wasn&#8217;t really possible to go anywhere except on foot.<\/p>\n<p>I had hoped to make a few phone calls home, and the Internet cafe at my hotel actually has Skype installed, but their microphones don&#8217;t work properly so it would have been a one-way conversation with me doing all the listening.<\/p>\n<p>I took the pictures here last night on Christmas Eve in Coban&#8217;s central square. After that, thousands of firecrackers burst all into the night. I was awakened by a series of bangs around 1 a.m. I tried to get into the Christmas spirit by watching It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life dubbed into Spanish, but somehow Jimmy Stewart speaking with a different voice and in Spanish just wasn&#8217;t the same.<\/p>\n<p>If I can get tours tomorrow to a couple places in this area that I&#8217;d like to visit, I&#8217;ll stay another day. Otherwise, I&#8217;m off tomorrow by chicken bus to Nebaj, a Mayan town where I hope to spend a bit of time and hopefully study some Spanish and do some hiking.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AF2od0kWayE\/SVP11hGaOFI\/AAAAAAAAAHw\/mic_10m3fvc\/s1600-h\/_DSC0498.JPG\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283837087602849874\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 400px; float: right; height: 266px; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AF2od0kWayE\/SVP11hGaOFI\/AAAAAAAAAHw\/mic_10m3fvc\/s400\/_DSC0498.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_AF2od0kWayE\/SVP1l7xsUsI\/AAAAAAAAAHo\/UJR4lsbkyY8\/s1600-h\/_DSC0459.JPG\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283836819885806274\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 400px; float: right; height: 266px; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_AF2od0kWayE\/SVP1l7xsUsI\/AAAAAAAAAHo\/UJR4lsbkyY8\/s400\/_DSC0459.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a quiet Christmas just relaxing and reading, as many places were shut down and services closed, so it wasn&#8217;t really possible to go anywhere except on foot. I had hoped to make a few phone calls home, and the Internet cafe at my hotel actually has Skype installed, but their microphones don&#8217;t work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-mexico-central-america","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}