{"id":100,"date":"2017-03-14T17:03:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T00:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/?p=100"},"modified":"2017-03-17T11:35:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T18:35:38","slug":"a-yucatan-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/a-yucatan-love-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Yucat\u00e1n Love Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-104 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/FullSizeRender-1-1024x706.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/FullSizeRender-1-1024x706.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/FullSizeRender-1-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/03\/FullSizeRender-1-768x530.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oswaldo&#8217;s parents, Eva and Angel at a bar in Los Angeles soon after they became a couple. (Photo courtesy of the V\u00e1zquez family)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Oswaldo V\u00e1zquez\u2019s mom heard the song \u201cMare\u201d by Maldita Vecindad while still in her hometown in Mexico City, she swore she would find herself a man from Yucat\u00e1n. The song is a first-person narration of a man from Yucat\u00e1n who is visiting family in Mexico City but can\u2019t wait to return to his native state. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Four months ago I left Yucat\u00e1n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I came by truck to the city<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I came to visit some relatives<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Living here by Insurgentes<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many beautiful girls<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of silly violence<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lot of noise and lots of people<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I better go back to Yucat\u00e1n<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oswaldo\u2019s parents, Eva and Angel, met in the United States while working at a carwash. Angel fell for one of the \u201cmany beautiful girls\u201d from Mexico City and Eva found her man from Yucat\u00e1n after all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7EnmjTLl6sg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Oswaldo V\u00e1zquez\u2019s mom heard the song \u201cMare\u201d by Maldita Vecindad while still in her hometown in Mexico City, she swore she would find herself a man from Yucat\u00e1n. The song is a first-person narration of a man from Yucat\u00e1n who is visiting family in Mexico City but can\u2019t wait to return to his native [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340,"featured_media":104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2017.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}