{"id":13734,"date":"2026-11-01T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=13734"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:54:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:54:51","slug":"day-of-the-dead-dia-de-muertas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=13734","title":{"rendered":"Day of the Dead &#8211; Dia de Muertos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13737\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13737\" class=\"wp-image-13737\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Day-of-the-Dead-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Day of the Dead Sculptures for the Ofrendas\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day of the Dead Sculptures for the Ofrendas<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Day of the Dead (Dia de Muertos) is celebrated today and tomorrow in Mexico and other parts of the world.<\/strong> The day celebrates\u00a0all those who have died. Families and friends bring flowers to grave sites. They prepare festive meals and remember their loved ones by creating <em>ofrendas<\/em>, alters of offerings to their departed. Children can learn more at a <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">fascinating<\/span><\/strong> site: <a href=\"https:\/\/kids.nationalgeographic.com\/celebrations\/article\/day-of-the-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Day of the Dead<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day of the Dead (Dia de Muertos) is celebrated today and tomorrow in Mexico and other parts of the world. The day celebrates\u00a0all those who have died. Families and friends bring flowers to grave sites. They prepare festive meals and remember their loved ones by creating ofrendas, alters of offerings to their departed. Children can <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=13734' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3708,3709,1130,5986,3710],"class_list":["post-13734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-day-of-the-dead","tag-dia-de-muertos","tag-mexico","tag-november-1","tag-ofrendas","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13734"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29844,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13734\/revisions\/29844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}