{"id":2718,"date":"2024-03-30T19:46:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T01:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2024-03-30T19:46:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T01:46:38","slug":"sweet-orange-festival-in-las-marias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/30\/sweet-orange-festival-in-las-marias\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Orange Festival in Las Marias"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">The mountain village of Las Marias, Puerto Rico, throws a huge block party every March, the Festival de las Chinas Dulces, to celebrate the abundant variety of sweet oranges that grow on the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Celebrating Sweet Oranges in Las Marias, Puerto Rico\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5u_KD2T4GpY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">They call oranges \u201cchinas\u201d (pronounced CHEE-nahs) in Puerto Rico, though the Spanish word for \u201corange\u201d is \u201cnaranja\u201d (pronounced nah-RAHN-hah).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">We spent a sweet afternoon drinking china coladas and orange juice, eating china bread and other Puerto Rican delicacies, sipping Puerto Rican coffee, learning about island agriculture, and perusing the products of myriad artisans. The music was traditional, colorful, and energetic, coming from two main bandstands, and the crowds extended for blocks in several directions. We even took home an orange tree to plant in our Cabo Rojo yard!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blog\/post\/edit\/9181503609429467230\/4388981147039571615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Info<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blog\/post\/edit\/9181503609429467230\/4388981147039571615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Map<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mountain village of Las Marias, Puerto Rico, throws a huge block party every March, the Festival de las Chinas Dulces, to celebrate the abundant variety of sweet oranges that grow on the island. They call oranges \u201cchinas\u201d (pronounced CHEE-nahs) in Puerto Rico, though the Spanish word for \u201corange\u201d is \u201cnaranja\u201d (pronounced nah-RAHN-hah). We spent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/30\/sweet-orange-festival-in-las-marias\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sweet Orange Festival in Las Marias&#8221;<\/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":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,222,268],"tags":[700,701,699,27,295,266,9,698,261,262],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-lisa-blogger","category-puerto-rico","tag-chinadulce","tag-festival","tag-lasmarias","tag-messysuitcase","tag-oranges","tag-puertorico","tag-retirement","tag-sweetorangefestival","tag-travelblog","tag-travelblogger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2719,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}