{"id":394,"date":"2011-12-22T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/22\/americana\/"},"modified":"2011-12-22T19:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T19:32:00","slug":"americana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/22\/americana\/","title":{"rendered":"Americana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZQA9DSdDNcs\/TvOFOAJSDwI\/AAAAAAABU8I\/tw9mR1xKDi0\/s1600\/OurKiss.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"214\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZQA9DSdDNcs\/TvOFOAJSDwI\/AAAAAAABU8I\/tw9mR1xKDi0\/s320\/OurKiss.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Es una Americana&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That was that first thing that crossed my parents minds when I introduced her for the first time.<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Over the years they had grown accustomed to a shameful parade of women who I had brought home. But there was something about this young woman that they didn&#8217;t quite trust.<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;In <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">America<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, white women have loose morals&#8221; my mother warned me. &#8220;In <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">America<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, blondes will break your heart and move on to the next man.&#8221; my father testified.<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They shook hands and exchanged nervous pleasantries in broken English. Secretly they hoped that this young woman would amount to not much more than a common cold so I could then meet a wholesome Mexican girl.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Es una Americana&#8221; That was that first thing that crossed my parents minds when I introduced her for the first time. Over the years they had grown accustomed to a shameful parade of women who I had brought home. But there was something about this young woman that they didn&#8217;t quite trust. &#8220;In America, white &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/22\/americana\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Americana&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[395,1175,1176,481,1174,1173],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}