{"id":234,"date":"2006-12-19T20:59:42","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T20:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/2006\/12\/19\/posada-time-is-here\/"},"modified":"2022-07-16T11:06:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T16:06:41","slug":"posada-time-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/posada-time-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Posada Time is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"holaa-2255660450\" class=\"holaa-before-content\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><div class=\"holaa-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesperformingarts.org\/whats-on\/series\/summerarts\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"HI-SummerSeries-728&#215;90-SP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HI-SummerSeries-728x90-SP.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HI-SummerSeries-728x90-SP.jpg 728w, https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HI-SummerSeries-728x90-SP-300x37.jpg 300w, https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HI-SummerSeries-728x90-SP-696x86.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><br style=\"clear: both; display: block; float: none;\"\/><p>Quad City families gathe<a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=211&amp;Itemid=2&amp;mosmsg=Art%EDculo+guardado.&amp;lang=en\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-233\" title=\"posadas\" src=\"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/posadas.jpg\" alt=\"posadas\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>red on Saturday, Dec. 17 at the Moline Club, 513 \u00bd 16th St. Moline, for a Christmas Posada party presented by Casa Guanajuato and organized by community volunteers.\u00a0 Children were given the traditional \u201caginaldo\u201d (a bag with fruit and candy) <!--more--> while the adults sipped on hot chocolate and \u201cponche\u201d and enjoyed delicious tamales.\u00a0 People were also entered into raffles where the prizes ranged from turkeys and hams to certificates for haircuts and much more.\u00a0 The event was free of charge to everyone.\u00a0 Sonido Camaney kept the music going in this family event that went from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The highlight of the event was the breaking of the pi\u00f1atas as kids lined up while their mothers pushed to get their children a change to hit the pi\u00f1ata.\u00a0 The colorful star-shaped pi\u00f1atas represent the guiding star that led the Three Kings to baby Jesus.The posada is a religious and social celebration commemorating the journey Joseph and Mary made to Bethlehem in search of a shelter.\u00a0 Posada basically means lodging in Spanish, Joseph and Mary needed a place to for rest, and in Mexico people dress up and recreate this journey by going from house to house carrying lit candles, singing and asking for shelter.\u00a0 Whole neighborhoods or blocks join in the recreation where at the specified home opens its doors to the group of individuals and then they all begin to party.<\/p>\n<div id=\"holaa-1182040739\" class=\"holaa-after-content\" style=\"margin-top: 1px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><div class=\"holaa-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/yourlifeiowa.org\/locations?&#038;utm_campaign=FY2026_OD2A_MOUD&#038;utm_content=Recovery_is_Possible&#038;utm_medium=banner&#038;utm_source=iowa_newspaper_association\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"287-10024_MOUD_300BannersF_es-US_LaRecuperacion_01\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/287-10024_MOUD_300BannersF_es-US_LaRecuperacion_01.jpg\" alt=\"\"  width=\"300\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quad City families gathered on Saturday, Dec. 17 at the Moline Club, 513 \u00bd 16th St. Moline, for a Christmas Posada party presented by Casa Guanajuato and organized by community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}