{"id":16769,"date":"2013-12-26T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T08:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=16769"},"modified":"2013-12-26T00:01:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T08:01:09","slug":"christmas-in-san-miguel-no-santa-but-lots-of-baby-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/christmas-in-san-miguel-no-santa-but-lots-of-baby-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"A Festive Christmas in San Miguel de Allende"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16767\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16767\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16766\" title=\"Atolnica- church\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/image4-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Fresco in atolnico church near San Miguel de allende\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We&#8217;re just back from Christmas in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where Santa was no where to be seen &#8212; and the baby Jesus was everywhere. Families presented their baby Jesus dolls to be blessed at church &#8212; and kissed by the neighbors. This fresco is one of many at the Sanctuary of Atotonilco not far from San Miguel. <em>Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16767\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16767\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16767\" title=\"Cr\u00e8che-san-Miguel-de-Allende\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/image5-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas manger scene at Jardin in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Photo by BF Newhall\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Christmas Eve the cr\u00e8che at the Jardin in San Miguel de Allende awaited the arrival of the baby Jesus.<em> Photo by BF Newhall.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16776\" title=\"Christmas-tree-San-Miguel\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/image8-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Close up of stars in Christmas tree in Jardin of San Miguel de Allende. Photo by bf Newhall \" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16777\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16777\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16777\" title=\"San-Miguel-de-Allende-Parochia \" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/image9-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Church and tree and children playing with balloons at San Miguel's Jardin. Photo by BF Newhall\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A boy plays with a balloon that&#8217;s taller than he is at the Jardin in the heart of San Miguel.<em> Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16783\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16783\" title=\"Pi\u00f1atas-San-Miguel \" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/image11-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Colorful Pi\u00f1atas for sale in San Miguel de allende's Artisan Market\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And lots of Pi\u00f1atas stuffed with candy. Photo by BF Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa was nowhere to be seen in the days leading up to Christmas in San Miguel de Allende. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1139,35,1140,1141,1142,889,1143,1144,33,872],"class_list":["post-16769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-rocky-spiritual-journey","tag-baby-jesus","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-eve","tag-christmas-in-mexico","tag-creche","tag-mexico","tag-posadas","tag-san-miguel-de-allende","tag-travel","tag-travel-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}