{"id":122,"date":"2014-08-08T13:18:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T13:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calmecacanahuac.com\/blog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2014-08-08T13:34:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T13:34:23","slug":"tlaxochimaco-the-month-of-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calmecacanahuac.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/tlaxochimaco-the-month-of-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tlaxochimaco: the Month of Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calmecacanahuac.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Tlaxochimaco1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-126 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calmecacanahuac.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Tlaxochimaco1.jpg\" alt=\"Tlaxochimaco\" width=\"507\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calmecacanahuac.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Tlaxochimaco1.jpg 507w, https:\/\/www.calmecacanahuac.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Tlaxochimaco1-173x300.jpg 173w, https:\/\/www.calmecacanahuac.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Tlaxochimaco1-288x500.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tlaxochimaco takes place from August 8, 2014 to August 27, 2014.\u00a0 It is during this month that the people traveled throughout the country and up the mountains to gather flowers.\u00a0 They then strung them together into wound garlands\u00a0which were placed on the statues of the teteo. \u00a0The flowers that were used were varied and included dahlias, hummingbird flowers, mountain tagetes, ranunculus bocconias, tiger lilies, plumerias, tagetes, lobelias, white water lilies, red water lilies, and castalias. \u00a0Throughout the month, after the flower garlands were placed on the statues, people gathered together to make turkey tamales and they also sang and danced. \u00a0The dances were were backed by the rhythm of the drums\u00a0and\u00a0the women and men danced together while grasping each other&#8217;s hands on one side while on the other side they rested their arms around each other&#8217;s necks. \u00a0At this time, only the old women and men were allowed to drink \u00a0(Florentine Codex, Book 2, 108-110)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tlaxochimaco takes place from August 8, 2014 to August 27, 2014.\u00a0 It is during this month that the people traveled throughout the country and up the mountains to gather flowers.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calmecacanahuac.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/tlaxochimaco-the-month-of-flowers\/\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calmecacanahuac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calmecacanahuac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calmecacanahuac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calmecacanahuac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calmecacanahuac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.calmecacanahuac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/www.calmecacanahuac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calmecacanahuac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calmecacanahuac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calmecacanahuac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}