{"id":2576,"date":"2016-12-05T18:02:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T23:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lapequenacolombiatampa.com\/en\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2016-12-05T18:02:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T23:02:14","slug":"colombia-a-magical-christmas-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapequenacolombiatampa.com\/en\/blog\/colombia-a-magical-christmas-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia: A magical Christmas tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In Colombia we began our Christmas celebrations on December 7, <strong><span style=\"color: #800000\">\u00abLa noche de las velitas\u00bb<\/span><\/strong>, in commemoration of the religious feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. On this night, families gather, with lanterns and candles to light them outside the houses, the streets are decorated with lights and the lights express color and joy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">From December 16 to 24 is <strong><span style=\"color: #800000\">the \u00abNovena de Aguinaldos\u00bb<\/span><\/strong>, nine days gathered around the manger to pray, sing carols and enjoy the joy of these holidays.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000\">Christmas Eve<\/span><\/strong> is a great party, accompanied by music and dancing and <span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Night New Year&#8217;s Eve<\/strong><\/span>, december 31, is said goodbye with smiles and good wishes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Families share Christmas snacks such as bu\u00f1uelos, natillas, cookies, \u00abdulce de manjar blanco\u00bb and \u00abdulce cortado\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We invite you to remember these dates in The Little Colombia Restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>n Colombia we began our Christmas celebrations on December 7, \u00abLa noche de las velitas\u00bb, in commemoration of the religious feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.  &#8230; <a class=\"cz_readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/lapequenacolombiatampa.com\/en\/blog\/colombia-a-magical-christmas-tradition\/\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span>Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters-with-flavors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lapequenacolombiatampa.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/12\/Colombia-Christmas.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapequenacolombiatampa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapequenacolombiatampa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapequenacolombiatampa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapequenacolombiatampa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapequenacolombiatampa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lapequenacolombiatampa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapequenacolombiatampa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapequenacolombiatampa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapequenacolombiatampa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapequenacolombiatampa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}