My father wore Guayaveras,<\/p>\n
Despite their casual nature, the men that would frequent our home in Mexico and smoked the strong cigars wore them like tuxedos.<\/p>\n
I often marveled at the intricacy of the weave. Imagined a day when I could sit around our court yard with my own and join the men who told the stories, blasted out obscenities and told the dirty jokes with my father.<\/p>\n
At the end of the evening the men would leave. My father had enjoyed too much cognac and his nose would be red.<\/p>\n
Then I knew I would pay penance for the day’s trespasses. For the broken dish at the party, or falling down off the tree and scuffing my newer shoes.<\/p>\n
The belt would sail through the air and strike. Often until he lost his breath and tired out.<\/p>\n
Then my mother would relieve him of his shirt and put him to bed.<\/p>\n
On the morrow…the shirt would be crisply hung. Ready to be worn again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My father wore Guayaveras, Despite their casual nature, the men that would frequent our home in Mexico and smoked the strong cigars wore them like tuxedos. I often marveled at the intricacy of the weave. Imagined a day when I could sit around our court yard with my own and join the men who told … Continue reading “Guayavera”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1183,481,1182,325,1184],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398"}],"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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}