{"id":160,"date":"2006-08-20T17:59:16","date_gmt":"2006-08-20T22:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/160-cinco-de-mayo-a-day-of-jubilation"},"modified":"2013-01-19T17:20:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:20:39","slug":"cinco-de-mayo-a-day-of-jubilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/160-cinco-de-mayo-a-day-of-jubilation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinco de Mayo – A Day Of Jubilation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CincoThe Mexican people have a long history of fighting for their independence and their land.\u00a0 Battles with the Americans, the Spaniards, and the French people are scattered throughout their colorful history.<\/p>\n

One day in particular, the fifth of May, celebrates the Mexican victory over Napoleon III and his French troops.\u00a0 Back in 1862, on that day, the Mexican people fought and won against the French in the town of Puebla about a hundred miles from Mexico City.<\/p>\n

A band of traitorous Mexicans had joined the French troops, enlarging the forces to approximately eight thousand men.\u00a0 The Mexican army, however, only had about four thousand men.\u00a0 Although the French were well-trained and wore colorful, elegant uniforms, the Mexicans wore pride and determination and conquered them in glorious victory.
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\nCinco de Mayo celebrates this fierce pride and loyalty of the Mexican people in their country.\u00a0 Such patriotism has been seen in other lands across the world and is well-recognized as a laudable ideal.\u00a0 Liberty and patriotism go hand in hand.\u00a0 Likewise, traditional Latino music, Mexican cuisine, and colorful decorations, clothing, and games go hand in hand with celebrations of Cinco de Mayo.<\/p>\n

Every year, people of Mexican descent, as well as other nationalities, look forward to and prepare for the day of joyous celebration.\u00a0 Commemorating a nation’s dedication to liberty and everything it entails is serious business.\u00a0 Weeks of preparation take place, depending on the town, and hours of practice may occur.<\/p>\n

Parades and lavish reenactments are carefully planned out.\u00a0 Exciting and colorful fairs, complete with exciting rides, colorful booths, and entertaining games, are set up in preparation for a day of fun.\u00a0 Mariachi bands ready their instruments for hours of musical pleasure.<\/p>\n

Along with the refrains from such traditional songs as “La Bamba,” “La Cucaracha,” and “Cielito Lindo,” can be heard ecstatic shouts of “Viva la Mexico.”\u00a0 Truly a day for remembering, celebrating and enjoying, Cinco de Mayo is a holiday for all ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mexican people have a long history of fighting for their independence and their land.\u00a0 Battles with the Americans, the Spaniards, and the French people are scattered throughout their colorful history. One day in particular, the fifth of May, celebrates the Mexican victory over Napoleon III and his French troops.\u00a0 Back in 1862, on that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}