{"id":1448,"date":"2026-12-16T00:30:42","date_gmt":"2026-12-16T05:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:39:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:39:39","slug":"las-posadas-is-celebrated-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1448","title":{"rendered":"Las Posadas Is Celebrated in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Las Posadas is celebrated in Mexico<\/strong>. This event begins December 16th and ends December 24th. Each evening families walk from house to house, seeking shelter for Mary and Joseph. At the last house, everyone enters. People feast and dance, and a special seven-pointed, star-shaped pi\u00f1ata made of clay is broken open. Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith\u2019s <em>Las Posadas: an Hispanic Christmas Celebration<\/em> gives great insights into this tradition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Posadas is celebrated in Mexico. This event begins December 16th and ends December 24th. Each evening families walk from house to house, seeking shelter for Mary and Joseph. At the last house, everyone enters. People feast and dance, and a special seven-pointed, star-shaped pi\u00f1ata made of clay is broken open. Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith\u2019s Las Posadas: <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1448' 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":[74,4522,4520,4521,1130],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-december-16","tag-joseph","tag-las-posadas","tag-mary","tag-mexico","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\/1448","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=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26823,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/26823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}