{"id":1220,"date":"2012-05-05T17:10:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T21:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micheleantionette.com\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2012-05-05T17:10:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T21:10:31","slug":"cinco-de-mayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/2012\/05\/05\/cinco-de-mayo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinco De Mayo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed how Americans celebrate every holiday, even those that don&#8217;t belong to us? \u00a0Take for example Cinco De Mayo. \u00a0We go out and drink as much alcohol as possible and eat in local Mexican restaurants to celebrate this holiday that originated in South America. \u00a0It is crazy how much we like to celebrate. \u00a0I wonder if part of that has to do with the long hours and hard labor we put in all week long. Our work schedules; especially in busy metropolitan areas; can include work weeks made up of 50 or 60 hours. Not including commuting to and from work and going home to a family of kids to feed and bath.<\/p>\n<p>In other parts of the world I&#8217;ve heard that certain countries will stop all labor from about 2:00-4:00 P.M. in the afternoons to rest. Life is made up of more leisure and a little work. Where as in the states it is made up of a lot of work and a little bit of leisure. We are definitely a country made up of workaholics and alcoholics when there is a reason to celebrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed how Americans celebrate every holiday, even those that don&#8217;t belong to us? \u00a0Take for example Cinco De Mayo. \u00a0We go out and drink as much alcohol as possible and eat in local Mexican restaurants to celebrate this holiday that originated in South America. \u00a0It is crazy how much we like to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/2012\/05\/05\/cinco-de-mayo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cinco De Mayo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-family-friends","category-holiday-party","category-lifelove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}