{"id":151305,"date":"2020-12-21T06:10:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T10:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=151305"},"modified":"2020-12-21T11:22:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T15:22:51","slug":"what-are-the-dominican-christmas-traditions-lost-to-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/12\/21\/what-are-the-dominican-christmas-traditions-lost-to-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the Dominican Christmas traditions lost to the pandemic?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Barrio-decorado-navidad-Centro-Leon-e1608564158658.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-151399\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Christmas in the Dominican Republic is true party time, rivaled only by Easter Week. It is a time when people travel home from wherever, bringing presents from afar. It is a party in every sense of the word. However, the current pandemic situation has changed a lot of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curfews and restrictions on gatherings, even of families in public spaces, have put a damper on much of the joyous stuff people are used to doing: ginger tea for dozens of neighbors, community decorating of entire blocks, the much-anticipated company partying, the gift baskets, the carol-singing known as aguinaldos, and the &#8220;secret Santa&#8221; at the office or place of employment, all on hold for at least a year. While some of these activities might be doable via Zoom, it is just not the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither is Christmas the same without midnight mass, because the churches cannot be filled as usual. Christmas season merengues keep Dominicans in Christmas spirit since October. &#8220;De la Monta\u00f1a&#8221; and &#8220;El Pavo y el Burro&#8221; are two favorites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/n.com.do\/2020\/12\/17\/cuales-tradiciones-navidenas-le-quito-el-covid-a-rd\/\">N Digital <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 December 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas in the Dominican Republic is true party time, rivaled only by Easter Week. It is a time when people travel home from wherever, bringing presents from afar. It is a party in every sense of the word. However, the current pandemic situation has changed a lot of that. Curfews and restrictions on gatherings, even &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/12\/21\/what-are-the-dominican-christmas-traditions-lost-to-the-pandemic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151400,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151305\/revisions\/151400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}