{"id":33993,"date":"2021-08-13T21:37:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T02:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33993"},"modified":"2021-08-13T21:37:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T02:37:22","slug":"word-of-the-day-718","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/13\/word-of-the-day-718\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Quincea\u00f1era<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The quincea\u00f1era is a Mexican-heritage right of passage that celebrates a girl\u2019s transition into womanhood on her fifteenth birthday. It is usually commemorated with a simple or elaborate party, or one somewhere in between. It\u2019s akin to a Sweet 16 celebration, but done at 15 or \u201cquince.\u201d<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribstar.com\/features\/valley_life\/kimberlys-quincea-era-traditional-party-steeped-in-heritage-and-tradition\/article_b3b1a367-e12c-5c6a-b194-1e721a90bed3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tribune-Star\/Brazil<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/08\/13\/colorado-race-census-adams-county\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3465049%2F61169fce9d2fda2f47f25a26%2F59ee10d9ae7e8a504fd8ecd3%2F25%2F74%2F61169fce9d2fda2f47f25a26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A Colorado county offers glimpse of America\u2019s future<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Silvia Foster-Frau, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As she makes her way to her restaurant each morning, she passes by quincea\u00f1era venues, a tamale cafe, a Mexican candy store and shops for wire transfer services. Her customers often greet her in Spanish, standing at the counter below a string of papel picado \u2014 colorful Mexican banners \u2014 and in front of a menu with a mix of Spanish and English words, advertising items like \u201cchicken nuggets con papas\u201d \u2014 with fries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quincea\u00f1era: The quincea\u00f1era is a Mexican-heritage right of passage that celebrates a girl\u2019s transition into womanhood on her fifteenth birthday. It is usually commemorated with a simple or elaborate party, or one somewhere in between. It\u2019s akin to a Sweet 16 celebration, but done at 15 or \u201cquince.\u201d [Tribune-Star\/Brazil] Noted \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/13\/word-of-the-day-718\/\"> Continue reading <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33994,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33993\/revisions\/33994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}