{"id":2279,"date":"2015-11-16T08:49:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T15:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2015-11-16T08:49:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T15:49:47","slug":"pueblo-celebrates-dia-delos-muertos-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/pueblo-celebrates-dia-delos-muertos-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Pueblo Celebrates Dia DeLos Muertos 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Iram Arce<\/p>\n

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Left to Right: Yulissa Tarango, Daniella Contreras, Alejandra Navarrete, (kneeling) Damaris Ponce & Lazaro Tovar pose for Dia de los Muertos “altar”.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This past Monday, several Pueblo teachers and hundreds of their students boasted their Dia de los Muertos displays (or, \u201caltars\u201d, as they are referred to in the Mexican culture) throughout Pueblo.<\/p>\n

El Dia de los Muertos is a day to celebrate, remember and prepare special foods in honor of those who have departed. On this day in Mexico\u2014usually Nov. 2\u2014the streets near cemetaries are filled with decorations of paper, flowers, candy, skeletons and skulls, as well as parades.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Gray’s student display for Dia de los Muertos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On this day, death is laughed at in its face. Many euphemisms are used for death, la calaca (the skeleton), la pelona (\u201cbaldy\u201d), la flaca (\u201cthe skinny\u201d), and la huesada (\u201cbony\u201d). In parades, children carry marigolds, and music is played and dances are made to honor the spirits.<\/p>\n

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Ms. Mejia’s student display remember the 43 of Ayotzinapa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here at Pueblo, many students learned about the Mexican culture and the significance of Dia de los Muertos. One student, junior Ana Lopez, said, \u201cMs. [Cathy] Gastelum really taught us a lot about this holiday. I learned mostly that we should always mourn our lost loved ones, and this holidays is an easy way to mourn those who have passed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another junior, Anamim Yarisa, also in Ms. Gastelum\u2019s classroom, said, \u201cEverybody should reflect on those who have passed. A holiday like Dia de los Muertos makes it much easier to say goodbye to somebody we\u2019ve lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several other teachers partook in this holiday with their students, including art teacher Mr. Ned Gray, Spanish teacher Mr. Jesus Ordu\u00f1o and social studies teacher Ms. Jessica Mejia.<\/p>\n

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Mrs. Shepard & Mr. Ordu\u00f1o’s student display of Dia de los Muertos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Iram Arce This past Monday, several Pueblo teachers and hundreds of their students boasted their Dia de los Muertos displays (or, \u201caltars\u201d, as they are referred to in the Mexican culture) throughout Pueblo. El Dia de los Muertos is a day to celebrate, remember and prepare special foods in honor of those who have … Continue reading Pueblo Celebrates Dia DeLos Muertos 2015<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,167,15,35],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pA2u4-AL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}