{"id":1650,"date":"2020-04-04T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2020-08-10T17:35:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T00:35:49","slug":"chronicles-of-mexico-1962april-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/04\/chronicles-of-mexico-1962april-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicles of Mexico 1962April 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Chronicles of Mexico 1962<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts from a teenager\u2019s diary\/scrapbook<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(The full names of locations have been added to the Transcript of the scrapbook for clarification.) <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, April 4, 1962<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We arrived in Oaxaca around lunch time, so, we had lunch at the Hotel Victoria, then, went for a swim.<\/p>\n<p>The pool had two platforms for diving.&nbsp; I did a jack-knife off the top one with&nbsp; an audience watching from the hotel balcony, but, Bob, for the second year in a row, wouldn\u2019t go off the bottom one, so, we chanted: Pollo! Pollo! Pollo!<\/p>\n<p>After that swim, Barb swears a big bug bit her.<\/p>\n<p>We went to the Castillo de Chapultepec (Museo Nacional de Historia) via a very colorful flower market, the Chapultepec fountain, and had lunch in the Chapultepec Restaurant. Chapultepec means Grasshopper Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The Chapultepec Castle used to be the home of the Emperor Maximillian. One half is now a National Museum. The other half shows some of the rooms the Emperor and Empress used.<\/p>\n<p>The next to the last activity was to visit the ruins of Monte Alb\u00e1n, Oaxaca. In this picture, is shown the game area.&nbsp; Into this pit were put many of the young able men who were to fight to the death. The dead or injured were a sacrifice to the Gods. They not only relieved the burden of choice&nbsp; from the Emperor, but, it seemed as if the Gods chose their own sacrifices.<\/p>\n<p>We went into this little crack in the side of the construction, twisted around, narrow, hairpin turns&nbsp; and came out on the top of it.<\/p>\n<p>Out of all of us who went into this secret passage, only one got stuck: me.<\/p>\n<p>These two fellows&nbsp; in the picture are the best, friendliest, and nicest&nbsp; fellows , who taught me a lot. To the left is Roberto, my guide, and to the right is Bob K., that nasty man with that nasty movie camera.<\/p>\n<p>That evening at our hotel, they put on a feather dance for us that was rather interesting. John W. picked this (dark purple feather) off one of the headdresses for me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chronicles of Mexico 1962 Excerpts from a teenager\u2019s diary\/scrapbook (The full names of locations have been added to the Transcript of the scrapbook for clarification.) Wednesday, April 4, 1962 &nbsp; We arrived in Oaxaca around lunch time, so, we had lunch at the Hotel Victoria, then, went for a swim. The pool had two platforms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1889,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}