{"id":2003,"date":"2012-10-21T15:46:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T22:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jett.in\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2012-10-21T15:46:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T22:46:05","slug":"instawalk-dia-de-los-muertos-at-the-smithsonian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/2012\/10\/instawalk-dia-de-los-muertos-at-the-smithsonian\/","title":{"rendered":"Instawalk: D\u00eda de los Muertos at the Smithsonian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the <a href=\"http:\/\/nmai.si.edu\">National Museum of the American Indian<\/a>* had a Day of the Dead celebration today, including a live ceremonial performance that involved a cheetah or a leopard or something wielding a whip (which he actually cracked), a skeleton with a scythe, a kid in some sort of animal costume (dog? donkey? mule? not sure), and men wearing funny-duddy masks.<\/p>\n<p>*&nbsp;(which i&#8217;ve never been to until today, but either it&#8217;s underrated or unpopular or i was just dumb all my past trips &#8212; definitely a must-visit sooner or later IMHO, even if only for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitsitamcafe.com\/\">Mitsitam<\/a>, the cool caf\u00e9 that serves native-inspired food, but avoid the shrimp on fried yucca &#8212; the shrimp was rubbery)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Happy Day of the Dead! by jon|k, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/8110475148\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8471\/8110475148_ef759b07f5_z.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Day of the Dead!\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"D\u00eda de los Muertos celebrants by jon|k, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/8109173441\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8476\/8109173441_817710121f_z.jpg\" alt=\"D\u00eda de los Muertos celebrants\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"D\u00eda de los Muertos leopard by jon|k, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/8109185210\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8325\/8109185210_3b124eec96_z.jpg\" alt=\"D\u00eda de los Muertos leopard\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"D\u00eda de los Muertos celebrant by jon|k, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/8109188368\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8191\/8109188368_39032e7f74_z.jpg\" alt=\"D\u00eda de los Muertos celebrant\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Upside-down skull by jon|k, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/8109208784\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8051\/8109208784_0a3259fd87_z.jpg\" alt=\"Upside-down skull\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Skeleton violinist by jon|k, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/8109211764\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8051\/8109211764_8fb637cca5_z.jpg\" alt=\"Skeleton violinist\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 622px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"There are prisms built into the walls that cast rainbows everywhere by jon|k, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/8109415560\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8053\/8109415560_9a7de0c8f2_z.jpg\" alt=\"There are prisms built into the walls that cast rainbows everywhere\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bonus: There are prisms built into the walls that cast rainbows everywhere<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the National Museum of the American Indian* had a Day of the Dead celebration today, including a live ceremonial performance that involved a cheetah or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[249,1135,665],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - 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